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BlackRock wakes up to climate change

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2020
BlackRock will double its ESG ETF offerings, dump investments in thermal coal and increase sustainable assets under management tenfold this decade. All this, just six months after it was revealed that BlackRock lost more than $133 billion by investing ...

Fossil fuel holdings cost BlackRock investors $90bn

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2019
BlackRock has lost more than US$90 billion ($133bn) by investing in fossil fuel-dependent companies over the last decade, a new report criticising the world's largest fund manager about its failure to manage climate risk shows. The Institute for ...

Superannuation funds flag $113bn merger

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2019
... VicSuper floated the possibility of a merger with Vision Super, but a disagreement about implementing an active or passive investment strategy scrapped the deal. First State Super oversees $91 billion in asset for members who work in the teaching, nurse ...

BlackRock launches Australian bond fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2019
... classes without foregoing risk-adjusted returns," Vardy said. The ESG-focused Australian Bond Index fund is a passive investment strategy designed for ESG-aware investors seeking a core fixed income exposure to Australian-dollar securities, Vardy said. ...

Aussies instos join fight against weapons

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2019
Australian institutional investors joined a worldwide effort lobbying index providers to remove controversial weapons from global indices. Colonial First State and Vision Super have become signatories to an open letter calling for the exclusion of weapons ...

Are ETFs really the next smartphones?

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2018
... income, Lake added. "The first ETF was a transcendent technology when it arrived in 1993, and it delivered passive investment in an amazing way. It was just scratching the surface for the potential of the ETF and there is so much more we can do," Lake ...

What worries Aussie advisers: Natixis

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2018
... their lower fees, but at the same time, 73% said that investors have a false sense of security when it comes to passive investment," Natixis said. "Despite indicating in Natixis' 2016 survey that they would moderate their active allocation to 63%, financial ...

Parametric wins $60m global equities mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2018
... the US since 1992, and we firmly believe that Australian super funds need to balance their appetite for more passive investment styles with a genuine after-tax investment focus," Briant said. Parametric recently issued research demonstrating how tax-efficient ...

FTSE Russell launches gender diversity indices

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2018
FTSE Russell has launched a series of indices to meet the growing demand for more transparent environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in passive investments. The FTSE Women on Boards Leadership Index Series is designed to integrate a company's ...

Equity factor investing undergoes further examination

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2018
... new forms of equity factor strategies. The survey found multi-factor strategies tend to be implemented in a passive investment context. Even when dynamic, factor investing is generally based on risk budget management rather than active views of returns ...