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VFMC welcomes former Australia Post Super executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2018
... operate across the entire portfolio, such as portfolio strategy and construction, implementation/trading, investment risk and ESG," Gray said. "This enables us to take a whole of portfolio approach and to ensure resilience in our investment performance." ...

Responsible investment now mainstream

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2018
... oversee Australia's largest super funds actively manage their super funds' environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) policies. This is up from 60% in 2016. The report is based on a review of the ESG practices of 51 super funds covering almost ...

Aussie CEOs understand ESG risks: KPMG

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2018
... The fourth annual installment of KPMG's Global CEO Outlook found Australian chief executives recognise the importance of ESG policies, in some cases more than overseas counterparts. KPMG head of sustainability Adrian King said this recognition by ...

Spaceship looks outside of superannuation

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2018
... The 0.1% fee "actively selected" fund currently holds AfterPay, Baidu, Tencent and Netflix. The fund is not jumping on the ESG bandwagon yet, with Bennett saying they answer to "internal capabilities" and the infrastructure they have in the business. ...

BlackRock regional stewardship lead retires

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2018
... also been instrumental in developing a framework for BlackRock's active equity portfolio managers to integrate material ESG considerations into their investment strategies. BlackRock global head of investment stewardship Michelle Edkins thanked Bennett ...

Alphinity rolls out sustainable Aussie equities fund

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2018
... overarching commitment to advancing the UN SDGs where appropriate to their particular sector. In order to inform the fund's ESG agenda, Alphinity appointed former Citi senior ESG analyst Elaine Prior and Action Sustainability Asia Pacific co-founder ...

The tools to capture quality

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
... forced ANZ to cull sales incentives for its financial planners. Kelly then examines earnings momentum, balance sheets and ESG risks. He outlines ESG risk is central to decision making around stocks, but adds that not ticking one of the five boxes does ...

CFS partners to create ESG fixed income fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2018
Colonial First State has launched a new fund with ESG and impact bond manager Affirmative Investment Management (AIM). The Affirmative Global Bond fund will invest in fixed income and cash assets where both the issuer and issues have passed an ESG and ...

Industry fund appoints new chair

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2018
... with our membership and bringing them with us on that journey. We pride ourselves on being a community super fund, and on our ESG approach, and we have some exciting new ways of involving our members in the pipeline.". The move to appoint Lake as chair ...

Morningstar creates carbon risk investment tool

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2018
... Morningstar will calculate the Carbon Risk Score based on company-level carbon risk assessments from Sustainalytics, a provider of ESG and corporate governance ratings and research. The assessments can also be viewed among a larger set of 70 Morningstar ...