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Industry fund looks within for co-chair

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2020
... poor governance and labour practices. It is an interesting case study to illustrate the proposition that firms who lag on ESG imperatives can often constitute a poor investment over the long term."

Shareholder activism on the rise

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020
... with 20% of activist board seats going to female directors. The report also outlines a shift in investment strategies, with ESG assets under management represented by signatories to the UN's Principles for Responsible Investment increasing 26% to ...

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 ...

Industry fund appoints investment head

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2020
... that time was responsible for building the fund's investment expertise, which TWUSuper said included a recent focus on ESG. He will remain with the fund until midway through the year in an effort to ensure a smooth transition. The fund said it was ...

Index investment soars: Research

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2020
... ETF market grew 34% to reach $56 billion, meaning it now exceeds the $47 billion LIC market and is growing twice as fast. ESG products and mandates were up 46% in the period too, partly due to more managers reporting their ESG credentials. REITs were ...

Credit Suisse backs sustainability amid Federer furore

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2020
... evolve rapidly. "Sustainable investing is a long term trend that every investor needs to consider. Ultimately stocks with poor ESG credentials will trade at a discount," McAuley said. "It starts with a philosophy and a framework to implement. Looking ...

Acadian taps CFS executive

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 6 JAN 2020
... few years and is receiving increasing investor interest. With our focus on strong returns for risk, down-side protection and ESG, our strategies are well placed for advisers and other intermediaries and their clients."

Pendal appoints new licensee distribution lead

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 17 DEC 2019
... appointments as it created an impact investment team to establish a global equity impact strategy as part of the Pendal's ESG research team. Led by Tim Crockford, formerly the head of the Hermes Impact Opportunities Equity Fund and assisted by Mohsin ...

Pendal appoints impact investment team

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019
... appointed an impact investment team tasked with establishing a global equity impact strategy as part of the business' ESG research team, Regnan. Led by Tim Crockford, formerly the head of the Hermes Impact Opportunities Equity Fund, and assisted ...

ESG scores may be inflated: Eaton Vance

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2019
As investors seek to integrate ESG data into their investment processes, they can mistakenly conflate ESG scores in practice with more familiar financial quality metrics, new research from Eaton Vance has revealed. The paper suggests the conflation ...