ESG
Funds management
The fund manager believes that sustainability should be the new standard for investing as climate change has become a defining factor in companies’ long-term prospects....
Funds management
Credit ratings agency Fitch Ratings says bushfire risks have heightened the need for environmental, social and governance consideration when evaluating the credit quality...
Funds management
BetaShares has announced it has added to its ethical range with new diversified bond exchange traded fund....
Funds management
The firm has appointed an impact investment team that will use UN Sustainable Development Goals as an investment lens....
Financial planning
Financial advisers will be able to identify which ‘sustainable’ products would align with their clients’ values....
Funds management
Investors integrating ESG data into their process can mistakenly conflate ESG scores in practice with the more familiar financial quality metrics....
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...
Funds management
Australians would engage more with their super if funds reported on environmental, social, and governance impacts, according to a survey....
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....
Funds management
Only focusing on investing in the best ESG profiles might end up developing a portfolio of expensive stocks, according to Ausbil....
Financial planning
As environmental, social and governance principles move into the mainstream, inconsistency in the way data is approached is holding adoption back....
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....
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...
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...
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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