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Aberdeen Standard hires ESG investment director

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2019
... Aberdeen Standard Investments recruited Local Government Super's former responsible investment lead as its ESG investment director. Bill Hartnett will relocate to London to support ASI's emerging markets and Asia-Pacific team in the newly created ...

Former Cbus executive joins Tasplan board

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2018
... complement the current skillset on the board to drive our growth strategy," Edwards said. "Her appreciation of ESG investment philosophies will also see her bring a different view to strategic investing and opportunities for Tasplan and we look forward ...

Super ESG options can outperform

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2018
The average ESG investment option offered by Australia's superannuation funds outperformed the average MySuper default product in the 12 months to 30 September. Rainmaker analysis shows 68 super funds currently offer a total of 639 ESG investment options ...

AMP Capital expands ESG investment team

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2018
AMP Capital will soon have two leaders in its sustainable investment team following a global search for a co-head to work alongside Ian Woods. There's also been an internal promotion. From November 12, Emily Woodland joins AMP Capital as co-head of ...

Financial literacy critical to European retirement

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2018
... more effective and more robust. At the same time, we see increased demand from the market for different forms of ESG investment including exclusions and tilts," he said. He went on to explain the European Commission is working heavily in the areas of ...

SSGA strengthens gender equality actions

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
State Street Global Advisors will vote against the entire slate of board members on a nominating committee if a company does not have at least one woman on its board. SSGA said the enhancement to its board gender diversity voting guidelines would begin ...

S&P Dow Jones partners with pension fund giant

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2018
Index provider S&P Dow Jones Indices has partnered with an international pension fund that will benchmark its ESG investment strategy against two newly launched indices. The Japanese Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) is using two of S&P's new ...

Commitment to ethical investing booms

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2018
The majority of professionally managed funds in Australia are committed to responsible and ethical investments - a market that is close to approaching $1 trillion. Joint research from KPMG and Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) shows ...

Financial services giants launch ESG indices

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
... benchmarks will be instrumental in redefining the investment universe and setting an industry standard to help make ESG investment within EMD more broadly accessible to all investor types. This is a big step forward for emerging market investment," he ...

Diversity leads growth manager in new direction

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2018
A revamped ESG investment model at an Australian asset manager is turning conversations where large companies now approach the firm for advice on corporate sustainability reporting. In 2016, Platypus Asset Management decided to rebuild its ESG investment ...