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Fossil fuel holdings cost BlackRock investors $90bn

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2019
... strategies and 66.5% is in passive investments. "We offer clients various product choices, including portfolios with a focus on ESG factors. These portfolios are among our fastest growing which reflects clients choosing to move in that direction," BlackRock ...

Workplace deaths missing from ESG reports: ACSI

KRISTI CHENG  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2019
Companies should disclose workplace safety issues and fatalities in their ESG reporting to improve transparency and identify systemic risks, according to the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI). That was a key takeaway from the council's ...

BlackRock partners with $23bn super fund

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2019
BlackRock partnered with a $23 billion superannuation fund to develop an ESG-focused global bond index fund. VicSuper has again partnered with the global fund manager, this time to develop a global bond index fund similar to the ESG Australian Bond ...

AMP Capital revamps ethical super funds

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2019
... largest responsible investment manager with more than $2.8 billion in funds under management across its seven ethical and ESG strategies.

Fidelity appoints sustainable investing lead

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2019
... Pacific region, Tan will assume responsibility for leading Fidelity's strategy and policies across engagement, voting and ESG integration. He will also oversee the firm's ESG teams across Europe and Asia. Tan's direct report, Fidelity International head ...

Irish pension funds reduce equity exposure

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2019
... reign in their market involvement," he said. "We expect the increasing focus on sustainability to continue and anticipate ESG factors will become an integral part of investment strategy setting and risk management." The report also found 55% of European ...

Impact investing under threat

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2019
... impact-washing in light of the European Union's new ecolabel for environmentally friendly investments. AMP Capital head of ESG investment research Ian Woods believes impact-washing poses a serious threat to the impact investing movement and the wider ...

US bonds present ESG problem

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2019
Schroders' global head of stewardship believes ESG-focused investors should exercise caution before investing in US corporate bonds. Schroders global head of stewardship Jessica Ground told a media briefing in Sydney recently that some US corporate ...

ESG options outperform in the short term: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2019
... (10.3%) and First State Super Employer's Australian Socially Responsible Equities (10.2%) performed strongly. However, ESG options tend to underperform over three and five-year periods, Rainmaker said, noting the gap was only 20 and 30 basis points ...

Super funds hard to engage with: Research

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2019
... increases with age - disproving the idea that millennials are the fund members who care the most about responsible investing and ESG concerns. Forty three percent of retirees ranked responsible investing as very important to them, compared to 28% of ...