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Perpetual takes stake in US asset manager

JAMIE WILLIAMSON, KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 27 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. Perpetual is expecting to statutory ...

MSCI shifts to the cloud with Microsoft alliance

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020
... companies will initially focus on migrating its index and analytics solutions onto the Azure cloud platform, followed by its ESG products and ratings, real estate data and solutions and MSCI's risk analytics platform Beon. "By modernising MSCI's data ...

Pension funds apply pressure on climate change

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2020
... funds in the US have sent letters to their government urging action on climate change after a proposal sought to limit their ESG investing capabilities. The California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS), which has assets totalling US$246 billion ...

Perpetual slashes fees

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2020
... investment manager had seen its FUM lift 33% during the three months to June. This was largely due to the acquisition of US-based ESG investment firm Trillium and positive market movements. Cash and fixed income strategies now account for 38% of Perpetual's ...

US considers restricting ESG in pensions

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2020
... retirement. However, in the explanatory background to the proposal the US DOL addresses environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing of pension fund assets specifically. It referred back to findings the DOL made in 2018 on the relationship between ...

ETP market winners revealed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2020
... in ETP FUM and State Street is fourth largest with over $6 billion. However, BetaShares remains the dominant player in the ESG ETP space, with 73% of the funds under management, 71% of 12 month net funds flow and 72% of the 12 months revenue. In the ...

AMP Capital revamps leadership team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2020
... commenced and she will remain throughout a sufficient handover period, AMP Capital said. Director, people, culture and corporate ESG Madeleine Mac Mahon has also resigned, with AMP Capital people and culture business partners Lisa Hurley and Lauren Crystal ...

Morningstar creates new ESG role

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2020
... regions, effective immediately. Morningstar said the newly created role reflects its continued investments in growing its ESG research, including its newly-completed acquisition of ESG research and ratings firm Sustainalytics. Bioy, who most recently ...

Sovereign investors keen on gold, infrastructure

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2020
... as many pension funds look towards infrastructure projects (particularly electricity generation and transmission) that meet ESG objectives, the report noted. Central bank reserve portfolio's average allocation to gold inched up from 4.2% in 2019 ...

BlackRock offers update on dumping coal

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
... There was a huge increase in social engagements too, up 146% from 353 in 2018-2019 to 870 in 2019-2020. Governance remains the ESG issue that BlackRock engages on the most though. In 2018-2019 BlackRock engaged on governance issues 1931 times and in ...

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Global X awards mandate for ETF business

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Bell Asset Management launches small-caps fund

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Bell Asset Management has formally launched its Australian Small Companies Fund, which is run by former Tyndall Asset Management portfolio managers.

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