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UN's ESG principles gaining traction

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2007
The latest United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) report reveals broadly positive trends, with the majority of large institutional signatories appointing dedicated responsible investment staff and 88 per cent putting environmental ...

Ignore economics, investors are herders

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2007
Investment finance and economics are driven by very different principles and analysts and market watchers who think otherwise are making a huge mistake, according to a new study published in the Journal of Behavioral Finance. In particular, The Financial/Economic ...

Most finance executives support ESG reporting

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2007
A survey of senior finance industry executives reveals that the economy-wide costs of ignoring sustainability issues such as climate change outweigh the costs of addressing it, but they believe more industry and national leadership is needed. The research ...

ASIC review to streamline IDPS rules

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2007
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is undertaking its first ever review of the rules around licensing for Investor Directed Portfolio Services (IDPS) which it hopes will simplify some of their operating rules and reduce barriers ...

Putnam wins $600m AMP fixed income mandate

AMP Capital Investors Future Directions Fund has awarded Putnam Investments a global fixed income mandate worth around $600 million. "We awarded a mandate to Putnam because of their well-structured alignment philosophy and an investment process that ...

McCluskey moves to CommBank

Amanda McCluskey, formely manager in sustainability for Portfolio Partners in Melbourne, is moving back to Sydney to begin work in a new role at the Commonwealth Bank. McCluskey will start in her new role as general manager, sustainability from 9 July. ...

Professionals must have an ethical code: CFA Institute

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2007
The Chartered Financial Analyst Institute (CFA), now 90,000 strong across 55 countries, said the key to its success over the last six decades is its sharp focus on professional ethics rather than just technical education. Ethics supported by professional ...

Aviva bags diversity award

Savings and insurance giant Aviva won the United Nations' Global Diversity and Innovation Award for its international diversity programmes. The judges chose Aviva for its"innovative" approach to embedding diversity within the company. Two years ago ...

Blood and Gore fund sustainable

It is a fund that's been labelled 'future-proof' and has 'performance with principles' and now mum-and-dad investors in Australia can invest in Generation Investment Management (GIM), co-founded by ex-Goldman Sachs CEO David Blood and former US vice ...

ASFA develops standardised super fund data forms

ALEX DUNNIN, HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2007
Increasing demand for up-to-date super fund performance and asset allocation data has prompted the Association of Super Funds of Australia (ASFA) to develop standardised data forms for super funds akin to what has been used by the retail managed funds ...