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Fund inflows drop sharply: Calastone

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2022
... inflow drop compared to Q4. Also notable, Calastone revealed that inflows to ESG equity funds exceeded those to non-ESG funds for the first time in the quarter - A$746 million compared to A$452 million. Interpreting the figures, managing director of ...

Vanguard Personal Investor sees Delta boom

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2022
... investing, with women more diversified, more likely to invest in unlisted managed funds than males, more heavily invested in ESG funds and less invested in active funds and individual shares. "As research has proven, and as we've observed, women ...

Alpha females

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2022
... element of governance that still flies under the radar for many investors. That is, gender diversity in leadership. Most ESG funds will screen out weapons, tobacco, companies that harm the environment and companies with exploitative supply chains. However ...

ESG funding booms in Australia: Calastone

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2022
ESG funds were major beneficiaries of Australians' cash last year but the nation still lags on a global scale, according to the last Global Fund Flow Index from Calastone. In an analysis covering over half a million buy and sell orders every month from ...

Plato launches net zero fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2022
... zero now' solution. In December, Financial Standard reported that Plato Investment Management was pitching two new ESG funds to institutional investors. Now, the manager has officially announced the launch of one of them - the Plato Global Net Zero ...

ESG investing 2.0 emerges

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2021
... inflows into sustainable ESG investment funds... We also know that 33% of global equity inflows this year have gone into ESG funds and now one in eight in equity funds are labelled easy investment products," she said. O'Neill points out that Europe ...

Greenwashing scrutiny needed: Evergreen

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUL 2021
... of funds bearing the ESG or responsible investing label," Ashton said. Evergreen is developing a labelling system for ESG funds which is particularly aimed at navigating greenwashing and mislabelling of funds. Meanwhile, ASIC's work continues. ASIC commissioner ...

ASIC review of ESG products underway

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUL 2021
The corporate regulator has confirmed it is undertaking a review of ESG funds, analysing whether they're as 'green' as they claim to be. Writing on the aims of the review, ASIC commissioner Cathie Armour said there is growing anxiety as to the risks ...

Active funds quell passive flows

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2021
... two years," the report read, noting that British investors are by far the most enthusiastic adopters. However, passive ESG funds are also on the rise even though they are more expensive than conventional index trackers. Australians lag behind when it ...

Best managed funds, ETFs named

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2020
... followed by Hyperion's Global Growth Companies Fund (23.16% for the year and 19.95% p.a. over five years). Of the ESG funds in the category, the best performance came from BetaShares' ETHI followed by Pengana International Fund - Ethical Opportunities ...