ESG

Funds management

The firm has appointed an impact investment team that will use UN Sustainable Development Goals as an investment lens....

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Financial planning

Financial advisers will be able to identify which ‘sustainable’ products would align with their clients’ values....

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Funds management

Investors integrating ESG data into their process can mistakenly conflate ESG scores in practice with the more familiar financial quality metrics....

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Superannuation

Orbis has voted against proposals calling for sustainability reporting and policies to strengthen prevention of workplace sexual harassment, and holds a logistics firm th...

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Funds management

Australians would engage more with their super if funds reported on environmental, social, and governance impacts, according to a survey....

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Funds management

Six of the top 10 performing global equity environmental, social, and governance focused funds had fees below 0.9%, according to FE Analytics....

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Funds management

Only focusing on investing in the best ESG profiles might end up developing a portfolio of expensive stocks, according to Ausbil....

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Financial planning

As environmental, social and governance principles move into the mainstream, inconsistency in the way data is approached is holding adoption back....

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Financial planning

Flaws in the methodology used to rate environmental, social and governance compliance in companies meant they could get away without being fully compliant....

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Funds management

ESG integration in hedge funds could allow investors to profit but managers are yet to determine how to integrate these factors into their investment processes and algori...

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Funds management

Asset managers are walking the talk on environmental, social, and governance issues as assets managed according to ESG principles increased by 17.8% in 2018, according to...

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People & Products

Low-debt companies can help drive consistent returns for environmental, social and governance investors, according to research from Hejaz Financial Services....

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Expert Analysis

While fossil-fuel consumption has been successfully overlooked in the past, investment portfolios with direct exposure to fossil fuel-based energy businesses, utilities o...

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People & Products

Kate Turner has been appointed by First Sentier Investors as responsible investment specialist, expanding their responsible investment team....

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Financial planning

Australian millennials have placed ethical funds, causes and products at the bottom of their priority ladder when it comes to choosing an investment fund, Calastone has f...

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