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HNWs require specialist expertise: Report

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2023
To better serve high-net-worth (HNW) clients, financial advisers require a broader range of specialist expertise to meet their complex needs, according to HUB24. HUB24's latest whitepaper, Directing the matrix: meeting the needs of high-net-worth clients ...

Mirova targets super funds in multi-billion dollar raise

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 7 NOV 2023
... Australia and New Zealand Louise Watson said Mirova has both the experience and expertise to bring the very best ESG investment opportunities to Australian super funds and institutional investors. "This is the sixth iteration of its energy transition ...

US regulator fines DWS US$25m for greenwashing, AML offences

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2023
... advertised that ESG was in its "DNA," but, as the SEC's order finds, its investment professionals failed to follow the ESG investment processes that it marketed." Relating to the AML allegations, the regulator said DWS caused mutual funds it advised ...

T. Rowe Price hires regional ESG specialist

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2023
T. Rowe Price has appointed Caroline Ramscar to the newly created role of ESG investment specialist, APAC. Ramscar brings over 20 years of experience in financial services, having spent a decade at Legal & General Investment Management in London, including ...

Super fund ESG options underweight BHP, overweight CSL

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUN 2023
... the funds self-identify as being ESG options, along with a wider analysis of MySuper investment options. The 38 ESG investment options held a total of $160 billion in assets. Rainmaker found that the 38 options hold "a surprisingly high degree of similarity," ...

Don't discount Vietnam: Dragon Capital

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 22 MAY 2023
... there must be more engagement with companies in the frontier and emerging markets if investors are to achieve their ESG investment goals. In its investment process, Ngo Thanh said the fund focuses on ESG as risk management. "VEIL continues to expand ...

Super fund members eye change

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2023
... Guiamatsia commented. "Funds should be prepared to also clearly articulate and make available information around their ESG investment philosophy. Our research uncovered 42% of surveyed members are expressing awareness on this topic - offering a key opportunity ...

Supercharging Australia's climate investment action

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2023
... savviest and highest-performance institutional investor markets, and the way it has embraced climate active and ESG investment strategies is about to be supercharged. After almost a decade-and-a-half of climate and energy government policy vacuum, Budget ...

Super funds are lousy at communications: Strategist

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2023
Marketing strategist Toby Ralph says super funds must overhaul their member communications, as the days of arranging cohorts by demographic are long gone. Addressing the crowd at the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds (CMSF) in Melbourne, Ralph ...

ESG impacts on US pension funds tested

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2023
... difference between investment returns for US state pension funds in "blue" states that might be more likely to integrate ESG investment principles and "red" states that are more likely to ban ESG investment strategies, according to Rainmaker Information. ...