SUSTAINABLE
Financial planning
Any changes to product labelling for sustainable funds must be applied consistently across investor channels, including those used by financial advisers, according to RIA...
Funds management
Flows into Australasian sustainable funds have moved back into outflow territory in the second quarter of 2025 driven by US$400 million in redemptions from passive funds....
Funds management
Over 250 sustainable funds globally changed their names or dropped key ESG terms during 2024 amid regulatory greenwashing fears, according to Morningstar data....
Financial planning
AMP MyNorth has announced a number of enhancements to its sustainable managed portfolios amid strong adviser demand for value-aligned investment options....
Funds management
Value fund managers IML have launched an actively-managed, ESG-focused fund that will invest in Australian equities....
People & Products
MUFG and First Sentier Investors have appointed Velina Karadzhova to lead the recently-launched First Sentier MUFG Sustainable Investment Institute....
Funds management
Responsible funds are outperforming in the international share and multi-sector growth but less so in Australian equities, according to a report....
Funds management
A shift in consumer attitudes to responsible investing has boosted the financial performance of Australian Ethical as it embarks on an “once-in-a-business-lifetime” aggre...
Financial planning
AMP has expanded its managed portfolio offer with additional options for the MyNorth Sustainable and Zenith ranges with further additions planned in due course....
Funds management
ETF Securities forecasts more exchange traded fund launches in the sustainability space which currently only has four funds....
Funds management
While most of the top-performing ethical/sustainable global equity funds since the start of 2020 were active funds, almost half failed to make a return, according to data...
Funds management
There have been five times the number of environmental, social and governance funds launched in the last five years compared to the previous five-year period, according t...
Funds management
Only one sustainable/ethical global bond fund has failed to make a return since the start of the year compared to 29 standard global bond funds, according to data. ...
Funds management
As this week marks five years since the launch of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, how have Australian sustainability funds performed over that period?...
Funds management
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought social and governance strongly into focus and two sustainable exchange traded funds were among the most popular products during July, ac...
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