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First company lists on Sydney Stock Exchange

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020
... offers a six-week listing process focused on Australian companies. The exchange is the only venue in Australia with a dedicated ESG board, and the exchange expects listings to go live on that board in the last quarter of 2020. Torque Metals managing ...

Investment committees not up to scratch

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2020
... owners are using advanced best-practice governance to unlock the complexities of modern investment, notably when dealing with ESG considerations, and employing TPA helps the integrated thinking required," Urwin said. "We believe that this crisis will ...

Invesco inks ESG plan

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2020
Invesco is setting out its ESG framework in line with the Task Force on Climate-related Disclosures (TCFD) framework in its inaugural climate change report. The US$1 trillion fund manager signed the Statement of Support for the TCFD in March 2019, aiming ...

First State Super, CEFC back new bond

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2020
... invest in a portfolio of "green" projects. The ACT Index was jointly developed by BNP Paribas with ClimateWorks Australia, ISS ESG and The Centre for Quantitative Finance and Investment Strategies at Monash University. It seeks to use five possible climate ...

ESG funds crowned winners of COVID-19 crisis

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2020
... Water & Waste) in the second quarter of the year. However, this does not include the growing number of funds that now consider ESG factors in a non-determinative way in their asset selection, Morningstar said. On a global scale, sustainable fund inflows ...

Garry Laurence to depart Perpetual

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
... billion will now be 42% US equities, 11% global equities, 14% Australian equities, 27% cash and fixed income and 6% Trillium (ESG). Barrow Hanley and Trillium will be 29% of the total operating revenue post acquisition.

Investment strategies need to change: GSFM

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
... well as embedding principles for responsible investment and a heightened consideration for how companies are managing their ESG risks."

AustralianSuper partners with greenhouse gas giants

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2020
... projects that support industry to realise the opportunities of a decarbonising global economy." AustralianSuper director of ESG & stewardship Andrew Gray said the initiative would help the industry super fund to have greater oversight into some of its ...

State Street to launch ESG ETF

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2020
State Street Global Advisors is expecting to launch a new low-cost environmental, social and governance (ESG) ETF on the ASX on August 5, with a similar risk-return to the ASX 200. The SPDR S&P/ASX 200 ESG Fund will go by the ticker E200 and is the ...

Diversity screening option launched

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2020
... between two good options." Nucleus Wealth is one of a small number of fund managers that allows investors broader approach to ESG and that now extends to diversity. Investor's stocks are held in a separately managed account allowing them to filter investments ...