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Rest awards mandate to specialist fund manager

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2023
... fund's investment coincides with Octopus closing its second fundraising round for the Octopus Australia Sustainable Investments Fund (OASIS), which offers local and international institutional investors exposure to Australia's renewable energy transition. ...

Super funds taking on the climate crisis

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 AUG 2023
... chronic, long-term impacts on their investments. In a similar vein, Australian Retirement Trust (ART) head of sustainable investments Nicole Bradford shed light on the importance of aligning superannuation strategies with the expectations of beneficiaries ...

Tim Unger quits Willis Towers Watson

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2023
... consulting, and more recently, sustainable investment. In 2021, Unger was appointed WTW Australia's head of sustainable investments. Unger was also previously a member of Willis Towers Watson's investment think-tank, the Thinking Ahead Group ...

Janus Henderson launches new credit ETF

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAR 2023
... GOOD provides Australian investors with an all-important fixed income option to build portfolios around sustainable investments in a cost-efficient and flexible way," he said. "To date we've launched four active ETFs in Australia, enabling investors ...

Fund selectors insulating portfolios, embrace active management: Natixis IM

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2023
Fund selectors are turning to actively managed funds, bonds, private assets, and sustainable investments, according to a Natixis IM survey. Fund selectors are increasingly turning to active management as a tool for managing client portfolios, most saying ...

Colonial First State launches sustainable growth fund

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2022
... investing in a range of activities that they do not support but just as importantly to benefit from targeted sustainable investments across a combination of global and domestic shares, fixed income and cash," Power said. "Robust frameworks are in place ...

Octopus launches renewable energy platform

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2022
... co-investing into a multi-billion-dollar Australian renewable energy portfolio. The Octopus Australia Sustainable Investments (OASIS) Fund, open to institutional investors, and the Octopus Renewable Energy Opportunities (OREO) Fund, open to wholesale ...

TCorp appoints head of investment stewardship

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2022
... officer Stewart Brentnall. Cheang joins from Mercer where she was partner and acting global business leader, sustainable investments. Prior to that she spent almost a decade at F&C in a range of governance and sustainability roles and has also worked ...

New APAC institutional lead at abrdn

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2022
... also comes as abrdn marks 30 years of operating in the region. "abrdn is committed to being a leader in sustainable investments in the region. Vivian joining is part of our ongoing commitment to grow our presence in the Asia Pacific," Buehlmann said. ...

AMP continues to lose ESG investors

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2021
... the third quarter. Vanguard (21.6%) and Australian Ethical (18.4%) continue to dominate Australia's sustainable investments sector, which currently has over $38 billion in assets, a whopping 73% jump year on year. The research house analysed 144 ...