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Socially responsible investing moves to mainstream

Mercer Investment Consulting's 2005 global Fearless Focus survey has revealed socially responsible investing (SRI) will become common practice in investment management with 73 per cent of investment managers predicting the incorporation of social/environmental ...

Economy withstands impact of tsunami

... negative effect of the natural disaster to range from 0.5 per cent in Indonesia and India, to 1.5 per cent in countries such as Sri Lanka and Thailand. Oliver predicts the outcome of the tsunami on economic growth for the region in the coming year to ...

Socially Responsible Investing favoured by both retail and wholesale

Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) continues to be accepted by both the retail and wholesale market with assets of SRI managed funds growing by 41 per cent. The Ethical Investment Association's recent SRI benchmark survey reported that private portfolios ...

Socially Responsible Investment funds take-off

... annual benchmarking study of the Ethical Investment Association reported a dramatic growth in socially responsible investment (SRI) in Australia. According to the report strong growth has been recorded for SRI funds under management, supernnuation funds ...

Active outpacing passive returns for Australian equity funds; Mercer

... was 0.7% shy of the 4.8% median result achieved by comprehensive equity fund managers. The socially responsible investment (SRI) sector returns also beat index returns, albeit by slight less with the median result printing at 4.5% for the quarter. The ...

James Hardie tests resolve of SRI's

Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) funds with exposure to James Hardie are reconsidering their association with the construction giant. After warning James Hardie in December last year not to walk away from its moral responsibilities, manager of ...

James Hardie a good example of why invest with SRI's; EIA

... now is a good time to re-examine your investment priorities. Despite admitting a number of Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) managers did hold James Hardie stock, O'Halloran drew attention to the actions of AMP and Australian Ethical Investments ...

Active US fund managers underperform

The majority of active US fund managers have underperformed the major US sharemarket indices for the six months-ending 30 June 2004, ratings agency and benchmark operator Standard & Poor's said in a report. According to S&P, the S&P-500 index outperformed ...

Choice of fund manager matters; Mercer

... tables. WHTM was the weakest performing Australian share fund returning 14.4%, more than 7% under benchmark, while Challenger SRI, Zurich and the Colonial First State Imputation fund were the other back markers.

Retail investment funds bounce back: Rainmaker

... fastest growing sectors in headline percentage terms are hedge funds, boutique fund managers, discrete wholesale, ethical/SRI and international equities.