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FTSE Russell launches "green revenue" model

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2016
Index provider FTSE Russell has launched a low carbon energy (LCE) data model which tracks the "green revenues" of companies comprising 98.5% of total global market cap. The goal of the new model is to give each listed entity a low carbon industrial ...

Time to fear the no "fear gauge"?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2016
... Yippee-kay-yay! 'twas a good week for most major equity markets last week, all were blinking the happy bright and happy colour green....and this, just as we're about to see the end days of May - yes, the month when we're advised to sell and go away....and ...

Westpac prices climate bond at $500m

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2016
... Kidney, said "A leading Australian bank, [with] all Australian assets, going to international markets with a best practice green bond offering is a major development. Westpac has a high global profile on sustainability issues; this move into green bond ...

ANZ appoints new CFO

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2016
ANZ has announced the appointment of a new chief financial officer (CFO). Reporting to chief executive officer Shayne Elliot, Michelle Jablko will commence the role on 18 July 2016 and will be based in Melbourne. Jablko will join ANZ from Greenhill ...

Minutes to disaster

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2016
Here we go again folks! It's back on again. Yes Virginia, not unless you've spent all of last week touring Mars would you not notice that the US Federal Reserve had been busily preparing planet earth for another lift... as soon as next month and by ...

He pleaded, he promised, he threatened

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2016
Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor Haruhiko Kuroda had been a very busy -- or should I say noisy? -- dude all throughout last week as he tries to verbally abuse the yen to its knees. The yen has steadily risen against the greenback since 28 April when the ...

Investors must look past market noise: AXA IM

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2016
... "We have seen a positive client response to RI demonstrated by the increasing popularity of innovative products such as green bonds and the growing interest in impact investing. "There will be continued evidence of the gradual progression of responsible ...

Impact investing on insto agenda

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2016
... recent research by SLI found the younger you were the more likely you were to hold a Socially Responsible Investment or Green product, "the more likely you felt you didn't have to compromise financial returns, and invest ethically or with a conscience ...

May sell may go away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2016
Uh-oh! Don't know if you noticed but most equity markets around the world finished in the red heading into and up to the end of April. The raison d'Aatre, the source of angst, the trigger for the sell orders all pointed to the disappointment over the ...

Aussie income managers underperforming

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2016
... 2015, and this was below the S&P/ASX 200 Accumulation Index return of 2.6%. Lonsec Research general manager equities, Peter Green, said while the income strategy has tended to outperform over longer periods of time, there will be periods in which it ...