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Responsible investment plagues super funds

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2016
... including active ownership, sustainability-themed investing (17 funds, such as low carbon tilts), as well as impact investing (7 funds). Transparency is also growing, with 44% of funds (22) disclosing annually on their responsible investment activities. ...

Investors driving impact demand

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2016
... responsible investment at AXA Investment Managers, Matt Christensen. Christensen said the maturation of the ESG and impact investing space has seen a move away from binaries to a relationship that considers real risk and the measurement impact from each ...

Aussie start-up wins $500m impact investing mandate

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2016
... generating financial profits," said GII founder Giles Gunesekera. GII is a consulting firm that creates bespoke impact investing strategies for endowment funds, foundations, banks and superannuation funds interested in investing their money in projects ...

Impact investing driving advice growth

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2016
Demand for impact investing is expected to rapidly increase as a growing number of retail and institutional investors search for investments that provide both monetary and social returns. In the last five years there have been 96 reported impact investments ...

Impact investing delivers wide reaching returns

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2016
... tens of thousands of people but are also delivering strong returns to investors, according to a new report from Impact Investing Australia. The first data-set of Australian impact investments was released in the "Benchmarking Impact: Australian Impact ...

Industry fund CIO leaves for impact investor

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2016
... industry position and the values of our organisation and members, we are keen to establish a leadership role within impact investing," Cochrane said. "Richard has an enduring commitment to impact investing and the benefits that this can have on our communities ...

Instreet partners with investment advisory for ethical platform

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2016
... partners to improve and develop effective, socially responsible investment products and solutions." Brookes added: "Impact investing is gaining serious traction. Industry funds have been in the driver's seat of about $600 billion of investing in this ...

Investors must look past market noise: AXA IM

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2016
... demonstrated by the increasing popularity of innovative products such as green bonds and the growing interest in impact investing. "There will be continued evidence of the gradual progression of responsible investment from a specialist area to a 'must ...

Impact investing on insto agenda

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2016
... Two global asset managers were in Australia recently with the aim of spreading their message about trends in impact investing and its suitability for institutional investors. Sustainability specialist at RobecoSAM Private Equity, Silva Dezelan, said ...

MSCI measures insto ESG exposure

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2016
... agreed "there is room for new impact-oriented thematic investment approaches in public equity markets." "To date, impact investing has largely been limited to small-scale, private equity strategies but there has not been a tool aiming to measure the ...