ESG

Funds management

The bank has failed to reach its targets for the number of women in leadership roles and for employees from under-represented groups. ...

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Funds management

While environmental, social, and governance integration in a fund might sound good, it often fails to meet investor expectations....

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Funds management

Oil will be ‘the paraffin’ of the future, according to Ninety One strategist Michael Power, as investors abandon investing in the sector over environmental, social and go...

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Funds management

A panel made up of specialist ESG fund managers, advisers and analyst has warned that AMP is likely to pay a significant price for its recent controversy around governanc...

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Funds management

The CFA Institute has proposed environmental, social, and governance disclosure standards to allow investors to more comprehensively evaluate whether an investment produc...

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People & Products

US-based Promethos Capital is expanding into Australia to offer global and multi-cap equity strategies built around goals such as social justice, gender lens/diversity, a...

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Expert Analysis

Client pressure prompted by factors such as the bushfires is encouraging firms to consider their environmental, social and governance criteria, writes Matthew Picone....

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Financial planning

Environmental, social, and governance factors and more features from online brokers matter more to investors, according to a report....

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Funds management

Pengana Capital has highlighted that the lack of definitions, common standards, and guidelines leads to impact washing....

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Financial planning

While clients are keen on responsible investments they are limited to sector-specific investments and are unable to tailor their portfolios, according to a whitepaper....

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Funds management

Bloomberg has launched a proprietary environmental, social and governance score to help investors quickly evaluate a company’s performance over a range of issues....

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Features

Jassmyn Goh finds out why it is important for advisers to interrogate managers on their proxy voting and engagement activities, especially if they label their fund as ‘ES...

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Expert Analysis

With the advent of COVID-19 and the inevitable subsequent economic downturn, writes Guillaume Mascotto, will investor interest in ESG investing continue to accelerate, or...

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Funds management

Martin Currie has been given an A+ rating for its approach to environmental, social and governance approach for the fourth consecutive year by the by the Principles for R...

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Financial planning

Investment industry, which lacks learning from experience when it comes to improving investment committee practices and governance, should follow the aircraft industry’s ...

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