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More transparency needed on fossil fuel investment

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2016
... their targets to expand fossil fuel reserves, Market Forces said. Analyst and report author, Daniel Gocher, said: "With the Paris agreement being ratified by the world's biggest economies and aiming to keep the world under two degrees warming, we know ...

Instos seeking smart carbon plays

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2016
... more resources, environmental challenges and of course climate change which has been at the top of people's agenda post Paris," Jenkyn-Jones says. The equities manager knows there are investors who have gone down the road of investing in carbon footprint-based ...

Vision Super divests from three high carbon companies

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2016
... Australian Shares fund, reducing exposure to Australian companies with a high carbon risk. The fund is also a signatory to the Paris Pledge for Action - an initiative aligned with the 2015 UN Climate Talks in Paris encouraging investors to strive for ...

VicSuper hires distribution executive manager

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2016
VicSuper has appointed an executive manager, distribution and has flagged a commitment to future growth through distribution. With more than 15 years' experience in the financial services industry, Joshua Parisotto will step into the newly created role. ...

AMP Capital opts to liquidate AGF portfolio

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2016
... of the fund. At the extraordinary general meeting to decide AGF's fate, LIM Advisors director and portfolio manager Nick Paris said that his company would likely call for another EGM to replace AMP Capital as RE if the portfolio wasn't liquidated immediately. ...

International pension research network established

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2016
... Australia's Centre for Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR) as a founding member, was launched at a conference in Paris in June. To be known as the International Network for Pensions, Ageing and Retirement Research (INPARR), the network intends ...

AMP Capital details China fund wind-up strategy

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2016
... process is expected to take between nine and 18 months. Speaking at the EGM, LIM Advisors director and portfolio manager Nick Paris - who campaigned for the wind-up - said that if AMP Capital didn't "liquidate the portfolio immediately," it was likely ...

Voters opt to shut down AMP Capital China fund

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2016
... likely not to continue as you wanted." In his opening statement at the EGM, LIM Advisors director and portfolio manager Nick Paris argued that his firm had never wanted to see the fund dissolved; instead, LIM had suggested a number of improvements for ...

ASX ranks third in global sustainability survey

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2016

Cbus signs new Paris ESG commitment

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUL 2016
... the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative and The Generation Foundation launched the new statement in Paris last week, based on their joint finding that "failing to consider long-term investment value drivers, which include environmental ...