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Christian Super wins top sustainability gong

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2008
... fund scored well on the depth of socially responsible investment. Goldman Sachs JBWere head of environment, social and governance (ESG) research, Andrew Gray was awarded the Special Award for Sustainability Research. His whitepaper found a correlation ...

Right to choice must balance costs of choosing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2008
... disproportionate share of those costs," said Senator Mark Arbib, representing the government at today's Superannuation Governance Forum. But Chris Pearce, Shadow Minister for Financial Services, told the forum that anything that unwinds the previous ...

What a member wants

... should encourage debate on whether super fund members should be treated as 'investors' or 'fund beneficiaries', said a governance expert. Scott Donald, director, fiduciary research at Russell Investments, said that the industry's major players and government ...

Dow Jones launches Islamic ASEAN index

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2008
... has been licensed to Malaysia-based Corston-Smith Asset Management to be used as the basis for a long-only corporate governance investment fund. "ASEAN member countries are among the fastest emerging economies in Asia. The Dow Jones Islamic Market ASEAN ...

QSuper searches for CIO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2008
... hiring a chief investment officer. Appointing a chief investment officer would strengthen the fund's resources and governance structure, QSuper said in a statement. In addition, the fund's board recognised appointing a chief investment officer would ...

Pascoe shares VFMC strategies

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2008
... investment options are best positioned for the long term trends and whether they are influenced by environmental, social and governance factors. Other keynote speakers include Mark Delaney (AustralianSuper), David St John (Unisuper), Sean Henaghan (AMP) ...

UniSuper ramps up Asia corporate governance

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2008
The $23 billion UniSuper is taking the corporate governance of its $1 billion investments in Asia to new heights - the fund is extending its proxy voting policy for shareholders to include ventures in the region. UniSuper has already commenced voting ...

IML signs UN PRI

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2008
... eventually reflect its underlying value. The key influences on a company's value are the environmental, social and governance [ESG] issues," he said. "In this way, companies with good ESG records are likely to be good for underpinning above-average returns ...

Vale Joy Palmer

... from 2006 to date. "Joy made a significant contribution to the fund and the industry, particularly in the areas of governance and sustainability, and has built a strong foundation for Statewide to build on in the years ahead," said Magill. "She will ...

Responsible investments still in vogue

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2008
... mirroring the increase in assets of fund managers and superannuation funds that have integrated environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues into their investment processes. Meanwhile, community finance maintained a healthy growth rate over the ...