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Goldman Sachs hires for family office offering

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 AUG 2021
... based in Singapore, and is currently an executive director within private wealth management. He also has experience as an oil derivatives trader with Citi, Glencore and Trafigura. Kavanagh was co-head of the charity and education investment group at ...

News Corp grows Dow Jones with acquisition

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 3 AUG 2021
News Corp is expanding Dow Jones by entering into an agreement to acquire the Oil Price Information Service (OPIS) from S&P Global and IHS Markit. OPIS will fold into Dow Jones' Professional Information Business (PIB) which includes Dow Jones Risk & ...

New emerging markets ESG fund at Dimensional

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUL 2021
... Dimensional said. It also evaluates companies on additional criteria such as land use, biodiversity, toxic spills, and palm oil, and filters for issues such as child labour, cluster munitions, tobacco and factory farming identified by clients as priorities. ...

KLP divests Israeli-linked settlement firms

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2021
... companies KLP no longer holds are Alstom, Bank Hapoalim, Motorola Solutions, Israel Discount Bank, Cellcom Israel and Paz Oil. Overall, their total assets add up to about $43 million (NOK275m). "Our assessment is that there is an unacceptable risk that ...

Goodments by Douugh now in Australia

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021
... trading platform with a firm focus on ESG, the Goodments by Douugh offering will not include any companies that are involved in oil production, controversial weapons or tobacco.

BlackRock rejigs Aussie shares fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2021
... including tobacco producers, controversial weapons, thermal coal (greater than 5% revenue from production and power generation), oil sands (greater than 5% revenue from production), nuclear weapons, and oil and gas. The managers typically excluded these ...

IFM Investors named in class action

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2021
... petroleum and is a critical piece of infrastructure, transporting around 2.5 million barrels of gasoline, diesel fuel, heating oil and jet fuel per day. On 7 May 2021, a ransomware cyber attack shut down the Colonial Pipeline. The entire east coast of ...

Chief economist update: A delicate balancing act

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUN 2021
"The demand picture has shown clear signs of improvement." So declared Saudi Arabia's oil minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman as the OPEC+ group of oil producing nations met and decided to gradually increase oil production in July. The OPEC+'s ...

Rest launches low-cost SRI option

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2021
... human rights abuses, unethical supply chains, fossil fuels, animal cruelty, gender discrimination, tobacco, gambling, palm oil, controversial weaponry, or have a recent track record of environmental damage, or excessive executive remuneration. Elsewhere ...

Sydney multi-boutique adds crypto fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 16 APR 2021
... uncorrelated, liquid asset class. Volatility of Bitcoin has been falling and is now comparable to a traditional asset class like oil," said Arrano chief investment officer Avaneesh Acquilla. "At the same time, scarcity of Bitcoin (as mining incentives ...