SUSTAINABLE

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...

Funds management

The Responsible Investment Association Australasia has certified VanEck’s sustainable exchange traded fund as a ‘responsible investment’....

Funds management

Every single Australian-domiciled ‘sustainable’ fund outperformed the ASX 200 over the three months to 31 March, 2020, putting the rest to theory that sustainable does no...

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