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Myer Foundation partners with Mercer

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2020
... partner, global business leader of responsible investment Helga Birgden said. "While not all Responsible Investment or ESG funds will outperform over all periods, as long-term investors focused both on returns and truly sustainable investment solutions ...

Lack of transparency in ESG funds criticised

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020
... and better tools to help investors make informed decisions about where they put their money." He thinks this is why ESG funds need to be transparent about the composition of their portfolio and their stance on sustainability.

ESG crisis returns overcooked: Research

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2020
ESG funds tallied up record inflows and touted better-than-market returns in the COVID-19 downturn but new academic research says there is no evidence that ESG scores contributed anything beyond traditional models. In ESG Didn't Immunize Stocks Against ...

Perpetual launches two ESG funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020
Perpetual Investments has launched two ESG global equities funds from Trillium for the Australia and New Zealand market. The first, Trillium ESG Global Equity Fund hold 70-150 stocks, excluding fossil fuels and integrating ESG research. Perpetual has ...

ESG funds crowned winners of COVID-19 crisis

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2020
Australasian sustainable funds attracted inflows worth more than $207 million in the second quarter of 2020, with Australian Ethical and Dimensional reaping the majority of these rewards. Morningstar's latest Global Sustainable Fund Flows report, which ...

US considers restricting ESG in pensions

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2020
... in the best interests of retirement plan members. It's also worried that pension fund fiduciaries are being marketed ESG funds by managers on the basis of goals unrelated to financial performance. "This proposed regulation is designed in part to make ...

Australian Ethical posts record results

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2020
... Standard the results prove that ethical, sustainable investments can generate market leading results. "At the moment ESG funds are outperforming their peers, and I hope that continues," he said. "Ethical investments are very much in the mainstream; they ...

ESG continues to outperform: Research

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020
... market during this time." The report is in line with recent findings from research houses and firms who have compared ESG funds with that of their ordinary market counterparts. MSCI conducted a comparison of its ESG indexes compared to its parent indexes ...

ESG investing now mainstream: deVere

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... rebound to pre-crisis levels in the short-term, have also helped to drive interest in ESG investments. "This is because ESG funds circumnavigate oil stocks, so their performance will not be adversely impacted by the fall in share prices," Green explained. ...

Managed funds versus the ASX 200

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2019
... Capital, Aberdeen Standard and Vanguard had one each. Interestingly, of the ones that outperformed the index, three were ESG funds (Alphinity Sustainable Share Fund, AMP Sustainable Share Fund and Australian Ethical Diversified Shares). The research ...