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Manus and Nauru are immoral and risky: super funds

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... year and Davidson said that funds "have not taken the decision [to divest] lightly." "It is wrong to characterise the divestment as just an ethical or moral judgment, there is an investment rationale behind it," she said. First State Super is another ...

HESTA divests from Transfield

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2015
... Transfield Services, the operator of Australian detention centres on Nauru and Manus Island. Major factors behind HESTA's divestment were the views of several independent non-government organisations who found the mandatory, prolonged, indefinite and ...

Divestment could reach $50bn in five years

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
Divestment out of companies that are heavily involved in carbon intensive activities could reach $50 billion over the next five years. Fiona Reynolds, managing director of the global investor group, Principles for Responsible Investing (PRI), stated ...

Macquarie awarded $2bn in mandates

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015
Macquarie Investment Management (MIM) was awarded over $2 billion in new institutional mandates during the three months to 30 June 2015. The mandates were awarded across ten strategies in six different countries, Macquarie said during the annual general ...

ANALYSIS: The dragon in the room

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
... included in the world's main indices, it remains the dragon in the investment room. Laura Millan asks: China investment or divestment? China's economic growth is at the heart of all discussions. To BlackRock's head of China equities Helen Zhu, "it is ...

World's largest sovereign wealth fund divests coal

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015
... largest fund in the world looking elsewhere to meet its financial targets." As reported in Financial Standard, coal divestment is becoming a major priority for many institutions, including some of the world's leading universities. It has been reported ...

Universities at fossil fuel divestment frontlines

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... University, Soas University of London and the Australian National University - to respond to the growing fossil fuel divestment movement, led by the international not-for-profit 350.org. Speaking to Financial Standard, 350.org Australian national campus ...

AMP winds up property fund

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015
... "Investors have benefited from a consistent and disciplined acquisition strategy, strong asset management and prudent divestment of assets that has delivered a total return in excess of 9% per annum." Located on a 5.87 hectare site in southern New South ...

Future Fund ranks worst in managing climate risk

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... climate risk overlay on their core portfolio, underweighting carbon-intensive stocks and sectors, as well as and using divestment and negative screens in certain sectors. The AODP surveyed the world's 500 largest asset owners, including pension funds ...

Finance minister seeks interest from property investors

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2015
... seeking interest from potential property investors in six Commonwealth properties in Canberra as part of its property divestment program, Minister for Finance Mathias Cormann and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Finance Michael McCormack announced ...