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Mercer zeroes in on ESG managers

Mercer has revamped its manager research process to evaluate the extent fund managers pro-actively integrate environmental, social and governance factors (ESG) into their mainstream investment process. The new research approach will give Australian ...

Carbon assets in valuation freefall

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2008
The NSW government's decision to sell its coal burning power stations before they lose all their value highlights how deeply our national focus on carbon reduction will impact the economy. The irony is the political debate around the sell-off was opposed ...

Responsible investing gains momentum

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2007
Proof that responsible investing (RI) is fast becoming mainstream, the latest data from AXA Investment Managers has shown that funds flow into responsible investing (RI) has outpaced funds flow into non-RI funds in Europe. "Net new money into European ...

UN's ESG principles gaining traction

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2007
... practice this year, 83 per cent of signatories now have dedicated responsible investment staff and 66 per cent of asset owner signatories already consider ESG issues in their investment manager selection process with another 13 per cent intending to ...

HESTA joins better research alliance

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2007
Industry fund HESTA has joined the Enhanced Analytics Initiative (EAI), an international collaboration that rewards analysts and brokers for greater depth and breadth of research and the inclusion of factors such as corporate governance, human capital ...

Institutions more comfortable with hedge funds: State Street

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2007
State Street's third institutional investor hedge fund study shows more institutional investors are comfortable investing in hedge funds today than 12 months ago. Conducted late last year, the study, in conjunction with the 2006 Global Absolute Return ...

RBC Dexia ranked number one global custodian, again

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2007
RBC Dexia Investor Services has been ranked the number one global custodian for the third successive year, according to R&M Consultants' 2007 Global Custody Survey. "This has been achieved after merging the two separate investor services divisions of ...

State Street boosts transition management team

NICK OLIVER  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2007
... BNP Asset Management where he worked as a business development manager in superannuation. Targeting institutional asset owner clients such as super and pension investors, Michael will be assisting clients with portfolio risk management and advisory solutions. ...

Babcock & Brown swells infrastructure by $3.4bn

... market. "The acquisition of NorthWestern further establishes Babcock & Brown Infrastructure as a truly global energy asset owner and operator with significant investments in the United States, Europe and Australasia," said BBI's chief executive Steve ...

Advisers still misunderstood: FPA

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) have released results from a number of surveys which it says reflect positively on financial planners and which they hope will dispel a number of misconceptions about their roles and value. Kerrie Kelly, chief ...