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NGS Super bolsters investment team

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2022
... complement and coincide with some recent bold moves from its investment team. This includes the fund's recent divestment of oil and gas exploration and production companies, including Woodside and Santos, and its interim target of a 35% reduction ...

Norwegian wealth fund records $250bn loss

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2022
... Fixed income accounted for 28.3%, unlisted real estate 3% and unlisted renewable energy infrastructure was 0.1%. Known as the oil fund, it said the only sector to see a positive return was energy, which returned 13.2% on the back of increased oil, gas ...

US inflation drops to 8.5%

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2022
... slowdown in rising energy prices. Energy CPI rose by 32.9%, down from 41.6% in June, driven by a fall in gasoline prices, fuel oil and natural gas. However, food prices continue to rise, coming in at 10.9% - the biggest increase since the 1979-80 figures. ...

Value investing a likely winner: Maple-Brown

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2022
... that elevated supply chain costs will be protracted. Specifically, Insync said that net carbon demand continues to drop as oil intensity in economies also falls. Likewise, shipping capacity and efficiency is rapidly improving with pandemic related logistical ...

NGS Super divests oil, gas producers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2022
NGS Super has divested from more than $190 million in oil and gas exploration and production companies, predominantly Woodside and Santos. The divestment is in line with the fund's announced target of a 35% reduction of Scope 1 and Scope 2 carbon ...

CPI rises, IMF lowers global outlook

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2022
... endured for an eighth consecutive quarter. The ABS said: "Price pressures continued to flow through to consumers following an oil price shock caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine last quarter, coupled with ongoing easing of COVID-19 restrictions ...

Mercer pumps $100m into Perennial Partners strategy

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2022
... well as technology improving occupational health and safety outcomes. The portfolio excludes thermal coal, met coal, uranium, oil and gas, alcohol, tobacco, weapons, old growth logging, gambling, pornography, toxic pesticides, and live exports. It employs ...

Is the wage price spiral narrative a lie?

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2022
... Russia's invasion of Ukraine. "While much is made of the link between increases in the costs of inputs (such as the price of oil) and increases in prices (such as the price of petrol) in fact many firms have a high degree of discretion about how much ...

Local ETF industry flows positive, lower FUM: BetaShares

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2022
... for the half year came from geared short US equity exposures. The next best performers were exposures to energy like crude oil (OOO) and global energy companies (FUEL) returning 52% and 22% respectively. Overall, given the changed economic conditions ...

US rocked by inflation disaster

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2022
... make more progress, more quickly, in getting prices under control." To do this Biden promised he'd continue the release of oil from the US's strategic petroleum reserve and persist with putting price caps on Russian oil. Biden also announced that'd he'd ...