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ESG impacts on US pension funds tested

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2023
... be more likely to reject such ESG investment strategies." Currently, there are more than 20 US states, led by Texas and Florida, which actively prohibit pension funds in their jurisdictions from following ESG principles. "The analyses' results revealed ...

Goldman Sachs charged over ESG failures

JAMIE WILLIAMSON, RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2022
... concerns with their public statements and record of prioritising ESG initiatives over shareholder return." In August, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and the trustees of the US$253.1 billion State Board of Administration (SBA) have banned ESG from considerations ...

Collimate deal nearly over the line

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2022
... Collimate Capital's domestic real estate business. At the same time, Collimate's international equity business was sold to Florida-based private equity and digital infrastructure firm DigitalBridge for $699 million. In August, AMP chief executive Alexis ...

Pension fund sues Elon Musk, Twitter

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2022
A Florida pension fund is suing Twitter and Elon Musk over the latter's planned takeover of the social media platform. The Orlando Police Pension Fund filed a class action in the Delaware chancery court on Friday, alleging that Delaware law forbade ...

AMP offloads remainder of Collimate Capital

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2022
... Investment Holdco for $700 million. DigitalBridge Investment Holdco is a wholly owned subsidiary of DigitalBridge Group, a Florida-based private equity and digital infrastructure firm. The buyer will pay $462 million upfront, $57 million of retained ...

GQG Partners celebrates IPO

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2021
... proceeds from the offering in GQG's investment strategies for at least seven years. GQG is headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and manages approximately US$80 billion in assets.

How wealthy families protect assets no matter what

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 AUG 2021
... this issue, he provided the example of golfer Tiger Woods' divorce. Woods had a prenuptial agreement in the state of Florida, but his ex-wife was able to successfully argue during divorce proceedings that they were residents of California. Woods ...

CFP Board creates diversity and inclusion role

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2021
... engagement and marketing. She spent over 14 years at NASCAR, starting out as the manager of diversity affairs based in Florida. Over the years, Harris moved up the ranks to become managing director of diversity and inclusion, her most recent role which ...

Fund manager hires distribution director

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2021
... equities and emerging markets capabilities which have performed strongly despite the turmoil of markets in 2020," he said. Florida-based GQG has $77.7 billion in global assets under advisory, of which $7.4 billion is from clients in the Asia-Pacific ...

GQG sees spectacular FUM growth

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2021
... calendar year with $86.9 billion. Pacific Current did not break down the FUM growth into inflows and performance. The Florida headquartered manager is represented locally by Laird Abernethy, who joined the firm in late 2018. "2020 was a testing year ...