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Investment boutique makes PIMCO hire

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020
... Ardea appointment, Ryan worked as the senior vice president of quantitative research at PIMCO, while also co-founding an ethical investment fund that was transferred to Ardea at the end of 2019. Ryan has also worked at AustralianSuper as a senior analyst ...

BlackRock wakes up to climate change

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2020
... investments. That's nearly 70 times more revenue in passive investments, which would have exposure to some not-so-ethical companies themselves. BlackRock has also committed to increasing its sustainable assets under management by tenfold this decade ...

New SMAs launch

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2019
... the new FASEA code of ethics could create. A group of financial advisers have come together to launch the SMAs through Ethical Advisers Funds Management. The SMAs will screen out investments in oil, tobacco, weapons, heavy polluters, gambling and coal ...

AMP, HESTA, Hostplus lose out in ratings

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2019
The Ethical Advisers' Co-op has re-released its fund ratings in the lead up to Ethical Investment Week, with some surprising results. The co-op rates superannuation and investment funds by asking the individual advisers that make up the group to ...

Hejaz climbs Islamic fund ladder

KRISTI CHENG  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2019
Hejaz Financial Services announced its flagship fund, the Global Ethical Fund, has outperformed Australia's other Islamic investment funds during FY19. It achieved gross returns of 6.82% per annum, while Crescent Wealth generated 4.56% per annum. ...

Netwealth FUA, adviser numbers rise

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 AUG 2019
... clients. "While our superannuation products lead the market and have grown strongly, we have also experienced significant growth in our Investor Directed Portfolio Service (IDPS or Wrap account) which now represents approximately 60% of our FUA and 70% ...

Superannuation fund tweaks fees

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2019
... combined investment fee and indirect cost ratio for all mixed asset class options will reduce between 0.02% and 0.15%. The ethical cash option will reduce by more than half to 0.17%. Meanwhile, the variable administration fee will increase to 0.27%. ...

Ethical funds not ambitious enough: Future Super

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2019
... "Our portfolios abated more carbon than was produced. When you look at our impact report and then you look at supposedly ethical funds who are hoping to de-carbonise their portfolios by 2050, you start to think those superfunds don't look very ambitious ...

NZ Super dumps guns

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019
... and just a single against. The fund said the Guardians' Responsible Investment Framework required decisions about ethical exclusions to consider New Zealand law. NZ Super said the Guardians worked with MSCI ESG Research to identify companies captured ...

Andrew Hagger to lead investment, philanthropy group

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2019
... for both my wife Nicola and I, and we have built the foundations and culture carefully over a number of years to combine ethical local businesses with impactful philanthropy," he said. "Nicola and I look forward to redoubling our efforts to raise Minderoo ...