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Vision Super divests from three high carbon companies

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2016
... Shares fund, reducing exposure to Australian companies with a high carbon risk. The fund is also a signatory to the Paris Pledge for Action - an initiative aligned with the 2015 UN Climate Talks in Paris encouraging investors to strive for a 50% cent ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016
... deeper into negative territory. Following its June meeting, according to Trading Economics, the BoJ said it would keep its pledge to increase the monetary base at an annual pace of about 80 trillion yen (about A$1 trillion). Policymakers also decided ...

ASFA backs super boost pledge

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2016
... Australians with their super. Eight super funds are joining the Super Booster Day initiative that encourages Australians to pledge a non-concessional (after-tax) super contribution before 15 September. Industry executives from ANZ, AMP, BT, MLC, QSuper ...

May sell may go away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2016
... non-conventional policy measures and Draghi's reiteration of his "whatever it takes" (cross my fingers and hope to die) pledge had been becoming impotent of late. The yen and the euro have both appreciated versus the greenback despite both central banks' ...

State Street appointed alternatives custodian at GPIF

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 26 APR 2016
State Street has been appointed the custodian of alternative investments at Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF). The GPIF manages about $1.5 trillion and according to its latest figures, paid State Street about $8.3 million in custodial ...

HESTA reduces equities carbon footprint

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2016
... research, Scott Bennett, said when the team looked across the full range of success criteria and alignment with the Montreal Pledge and the Portfolio Decarbonisation Coalition, "we sought the best combination of robustness, intuition and transparency. ...

Global institutions join sustainable investment group

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2016
A consortium of global financial institutions and investors has announced a new partnership under the Catalytic Finance Initiative (CFI) to direct $8bn towards "high-impact sustainable investments." The group of seven has pledged capital and expertise ...

VicSuper creates climate change committee

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2016
... of 2016," Dundon said. VicSuper has also fulfilled its obligations as a signatory to the United Nations-backed Montreal Pledge by publishing the carbon intensity of the fund's equities portfolio on its website. Dundon said this information was also included ...

Wilson AM commits to Pledge 1% philanthropy movement

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2016
Wilson Asset Management has joined Pledge 1%, a global corporate philanthropy movement that commits to donating 1% of product, 1% of equity, or 1% of employee time to improve communities around the world. Speaking at the Nexus Australia Youth Summit ...

Renewed calls to remove super from political cycle

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2016
Superannuation policy decisions must be taken out of the Budget and election cycles to prevent a drop in confidence in the system. That was the shared view of a panel of policy experts at the SMSF Association National Conference in Adelaide that included ...