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Super funds accused of chest beating on climate change

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2020
... reviewed and increased over time. Market Forces was also critical of UniSuper's ongoing investments in Woodside, Santos, Oil Search and Origin Energy and said the fund has made no commitment to drop these investments. "Given many fossil fuel producers ...

Charter Hall REIT acquires portfolio, opens raise

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2020
... raise to fund the purchase. CLW is acquiring a 49% interest a portfolio of 70 long weighted average lease expiry (WALE) BP Oil New Zealand service stations for NZ$130.8 million bringing the total portfolio value to $3.8 billion. The REIT will undertake ...

Chief economist update: The second oil price discounting wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2020
... look now but it appears that it's not just COVID-19 seeing a second wave. Saudi Arabia is also taking a second bite on oil price discounting. Bloomberg reports that, Saudi Arabia's state producer, Saudi Aramco, has cut its key Arab Light grade ...

New sales lead at ethical manager

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2020
... range of ESG friendly SMAs last year after identifying what it saw as a gap in the market. The SMAs screen out investments in oil, tobacco, weapons, heavy polluters, gambling and coal while targeting healthcare, recycling, education, sustainable technologies ...

Bloomberg launches ESG ratings

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020
... transparent, data driven insights into company performance. Initially, Bloomberg will offer environmental and social scores for 252 oil and gas companies, as well as board composition scores for 4300 companies across multiple industries. Bloomberg global ...

Chief economist update: Second wave threatens an oil spill

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020
Most things appeared to be going hunky-dory for the oil market in the second quarter of this year. OPEC+ production cuts plus the easing of social distancing and the re-opening of many businesses in an increasing number of countries around the world ...

BetaShares rejigs oil ETF...again

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2020
BetaShares' ETF that tracks crude oil futures is once again changing the length of contracts it tracks and is taking extra measures to automatically convert the ETF to all cash if oil futures drop significantly again. The BetaShares Crude Oil Index ...

UK pension fund to go net zero

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2020
... close to half of its entire portfolio to climate aware strategies and begin divesting from companies involved in thermal coal, oil sands and arctic drilling. NEST, home to more than nine million members, has introduced a new investment policy aimed at ...

Pendal adds SRI lense to multi-asset fund

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2020
... pornography), the direct mining of uranium for weapons manufacturing, the extraction of thermal coal and the production of oil sands. Blayney said that through a "powerful combination" of changes in consumer behaviour, stakeholder expectations and regulatory ...

Pessimism strikes Australia, US optimistic

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2020
... crisis is unlike any we've seen before, and as a result global macro themes including the China/US trade tension and falling oil prices have subsided, as local economic stimulus measures have helped to calm some investor concerns, stabilise returns ...