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AMP, Pendal launch new managed portfolio

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... and ethics driven investment products. "Research shows that over half of Australia's population are considering making ethical and responsible investments in the next five years." Egan said. "Nine out of 10 Australians also believe it's important that ...

Culture is key in a crisis: Australian Ethical

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... phone for the Governance Institute of Australia's virtual governance and risk management forum, Australian Ethical Investments chief risk officer Karen Hughes implored companies to keep business culture alive during the COVID-19 crisis. "Culture plays ...

ESG-themed funds fall short of expectations

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2020
... objective. In fact, the IFP Global Franchise has about 5% of its portfolio invested in British American Tobacco. Looking at Australian large equities strategies separately, again funds with no specific ESG theme received the strongest low carbon designations. ...

Warakirri appoints exclusive manager for equities

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... also have plans to introduce emerging market equities funds. Warrakirri will continue to do the ethical overlays for Australian and global equities offerings. Their relationship goes back 15 years, when Warakirri first mandated Northcape. So far, Northcape ...

Time for financials to step up: Study

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2020
... play in generating positive social, environmental and economic outcomes for the nation. The study comes out of Australian Ethical and Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA), who surveyed more than 1000 Australians in both capital cities ...

Praemium rolls out investment tools, options

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
... "industry first" suite of ESG options, including new screening functionality for advisers and the addition of an Australian Ethical Australian equities option to its separately managed account (SMA). Praemium has moved to embed Sustainalytics ESG research ...

Climate activism not translating to investing

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2020
... has not translated into how they invest their superannuation and other investment, according to research from Australian Ethical Investment. The research shows the vast majority of Australians (83%) believe climate change is occurring and being contributed ...

Coronavirus no match for Future Fund

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2020
... recent - more than 29% of the fund's assets are allocated to overseas equity markets, with just 6.8% invested in Australian equities. "So at the current time the Future Fund's highly diversified, and we feel like it's very well positioned ...

Climate threat pushes Aussies to sustainability

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2020
... screening processes in place will not satisfy those who are seeking sustainable and ethical investments." In a survey of Australian institutional investors, Cerulli found that 88.2% named ESG integration, followed by exclusionary screening (82.4%) as ...

Ethical super fund cuts fees

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2020
... superannuation fund is set to cut its administration fee by 12 basis points as it looks to pass on scale benefits. Australian Ethical will drop the percentage-based administration fee it charges to members from 0.41% to 0.29% p.a. in April. Members will ...