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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 ...

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 ...