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Boomers show healthy ESG appetite

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2019
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing is well and truly on the radar for savvy millennials, but new research has revealed it could also be the secret ingredient to tempting Baby Boomers into engaging with their super. The research, coming ...

WA Super awards $20mn mandate

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2019
... in 2013 and is fully owned by the family office of Danny Almagor and Berry Liberman. WA Super's move follows social impact investments made by the $53 billion industry fund HESTA, through its partnership with Social Ventures Australia. Earlier this ...

Mental health tops TPD claims

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2019
... long-term success; and improving the financial health of our customers is one of our key goals," NAB general manager of social impact Sasha Courville said. "Given the strong relationship between mental health and financial health, we identified the need ...

Investors must monitor social mood: Nikko

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2019
... pocketbooks". He used two multinational corporations with mixed reputations to illustrate Nikko's view on considering the social impact of a holding - Kraft Heinz and Unilever. Fulton said Kraft Heinz had cut costs by cutting production costs. "In the ...

Industry fund awards $150m mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2019
... manage its first green bond mandate, which aims to achieve financial returns, and generate positive environmental and social impact projects. The bond, hedged in Australian dollars, is benchmarked against the Bloomberg Barclays Global Aggregate Index. ...

Super fund commits $20m for housing affordability

KRISTI CHENG  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2019
... attract other large investors." The $20 million investment is the biggest HESTA has committed out of its $70 million Social Impact Investment Trust, which is managed on its behalf by Social Ventures Australia. SVA manages the SIIT, through which HESTA ...

Banks sluggish on Indigenous financial inclusion

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2019
... Indigenous Australians in developing that roadmap. The research was conducted in conjunction with NAB and the Centre for Social Impact.

Perpetual wins trustee mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2019
... partner." Perpetual Corporate Trust general manager Glen Dogan said the business was seeing a growing interest in social impact funds. "The Indigenous Infrastructure Investment Fund is the first Indigenous focused fund for Perpetual Corporate Trust and ...

New Perennial small caps active ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2019
... management skills through a convenient and lower-cost ASX tradable structure, it also provides the tools to make a social impact without compromising on returns." The fee is 0.89% per annum of fund's NAV in investment management fee plus expense recoveries ...

Macquarie Group appoints foundation chair

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2018
... and professional commitment to the not-for-profit sector will ensure the foundation continues to have the greatest social impact." Recently the foundation announced it would mark its 50th anniversary next year with a $50 million philanthropic commitment ...