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Perennial and Hyperion sign UN PRI

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2009
Home grown boutique fund managers Perennial Investment Partners and Hyperion Asset Management have become the latest Aussie signatories of the UN PRI. According to Perennial chief executive Anthony Patterson, the fund manager had taken an interest in ...

Energy fund bucks market slump

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2009
The Bakers Alternate Energy Fund finished 2008 with a 0.2 per cent positive performance - yards ahead of the S&P/ASX300 Index's 42 per cent loss over the last calendar year. The Australian share market suffered massive losses of up to 41.73 per cent ...

Impax environment trust hits the market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2009
BNP Paribas Investment Partners has released Impax Environmental Markets Trust giving Australian investors exposure to a market which the firm expects will benefit from global government environmental policy. UK based Impax Asset Management holds a ...

CalPERS grows green strategies

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2008
If you can't stop the financial crisis, then stop global warming and make money while doing it - much like how the US' biggest pension fund CalPERS has reduced 13.3 per cent of its energy use in 2007 and boosted its bottom line. The $278 billion California ...

ASX firms more carbon clear

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2008
... Representing more than 235,000 members and over $6 billion in funds under management, VicSuper members receive a carbon emission measurement of their superannuation investments alongside their account balance.

Mercer clients gain carbon tool

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2008
... information could be used to identify underlying risks and to also create carbon efficient investment products. Detailed carbon emission information is becoming more mainstream. VicSuper announced it would provide its members with a carbon emission measurement ...

Cuffe fund outperforms index by 13.8 pc

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2008
Not many fund managers can claim that they are performing well amidst today's gloomy investment environment - but Chris Cuffe's Third Link Growth Fund managed to stay ahead of the index since its inception this year. The fund, which still posted a loss ...

NZ Super suffers $568m loss

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2008
The world credit crisis has drawn blood from another victim, with New Zealand Superannuation Fund posting a loss of $568 million or 4.92 per cent for the year ended 30 June 2008. The 4.92 per cent figure was the fund's net return on investment for the ...

Grow returns with timber

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2008
Swiss private bank Pictet is launching an investment fund that not only exposes investors to potential long term returns from the timber industry but could also aid efforts to reduce global carbon emissions. The firm's PF(LUX) - Timber Fund invests ...

Finance industry groups respond to ETS

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2008
Australia's peak investment groups have finally come out of the closet on the government's proposed ETS model. A joint submission to the Government's Green Paper on the establishment of the emissions trading scheme (ETS) by the Australian Council of ...