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New boutique awards mandate to RBC I&TS

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2019
... deliver competitive market returns via a social and environmental impact strategy aligned to UN Sustainable Development Goals, investing in Australian and New Zealand equities. It benchmarks against the S&P/ASX300 Total Return Index. A minimum investment ...

Big banks, super funds join forces for sustainability

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2019
... delivering on international commitments, such as the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the UN Sustainable Development Goals, while underpinning economic stability and prosperity for Australia." Simon O'Connor, chief executive of the Responsible Investment ...

TCorp sets green bond record

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2018
... investors. The bonds offer Australian investors an opportunity to support the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and will be offered exclusively to clients of Westpac Group. The bonds' returns are linked to an index that tracks ...

AMP Capital divests $440m from tobacco

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2018
... organisations to adopt tobacco-free finance policies developed in line with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and the World Health Organisation Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. AMP Capital first announced the commitment ...

MSCI launches tobacco exclusion indexes

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2018
... tobacco-free finance policies across lending, insurance and investment, in line with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals and the World Health Organization Framework. It has more than 120 founding signatories including BNP Paribas, Natixis ...

Millennials looking for impact: Research

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2018
... companies whose business activities are focused on addressing global issues, notably the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)." The number of respondents who consider investment returns to be "somewhat or very important" increased five ...

Commitment to ethical investing booms

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2018
... involved" in carrying out its ESG strategies. The UN, he said, has thoroughly put together the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Investec treats the SDGs with a lot of respect and focuses on eight of those, he added. One way of measuring the effectiveness ...

Should high-income earners pay charity levy?

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2018
... child wellbeing." Better wealth distribution can not only improve social outcomes aligned to the Sustainable Development Goals but would also help to address rising levels of mistrust around how governments raise and use taxes to provide services, the ...

Alphinity rolls out sustainable Aussie equities fund

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2018
... Management has launched a new Australian equities fund designed to address the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The Alphinity Sustainable Share Fund (SSF) aims to outperform the S&P/ASX 300 Accumulation Index after fees (0.95%) over rolling ...

Industry fund invests $100 million in renewable energy

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2018
... the transition to a climate resilient economy and enables Cbus to contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals," Callebaut said.