Using stewardship to bring about positive change
Super funds can influence change in the companies they invest in through engagement and proxy voting programs to achieve good outcomes for their members.
EP16: Alignment with managers the key to ESG integration
Skye King, head of ESG and Responsible Investment at NGS Super, and Fiona Mann, head of listed equities & ESG and LGIA Super and Energy Super – now Brighter Super, talk to Fiona Reynolds, chief executive, Conexus Financial about ESG and what it means to investors today. With ESG now in the mainstream, leading superfunds are turning to their relationships with managers to ensure responsible investment considerations are integrated at all levels of decision making. Making sure managers are best in class in seeking out responsible investment considerations is essential to integrating ESG into portfolios.
Equity portfolios impacted by YFYS performance test
The Your Future, Your Super performance test is having a wide impact on how asset owners and portfolio managers manage the most liquid part of an investment portfolio.
Why retirement income and advice go hand-in-hand
AMP’s retirement income product is the latest − but not the last – in a line of products that attempt to manage market, inflation and longevity risk, all in one box.
NZ responsible investing hits record $179 billion in 2021
The responsible investment market in New Zealand had a record year in 2021 according to the latest research by the Responsible Investment Association Australasia.
The conundrum of measuring impact
Impact investing – the deployment of investor capital to achieve a positive environmental or social impact – has grown rapidly. But investors lack the tools and data to effectively and consistently measure the impact of their investments.
Equities to remain key in asset portfolios despite lower returns
Equities are a long-term investment that will continue to be a key growth asset within a portfolio, notwithstanding lower returns in the current volatile market.
Shift to positive stock-bond correlation could increase risk, reduce returns
Investors may have to fundamentally rethink their return and risk expectations with experts arguing there are signs that stock and bond return correlations could turn positive and stay that way for years or even decades.
AMP’s new retirement solution seeks to offer certainty and duration
AMP’s new retirement income solution seeks to give retirees a market-linked income stream with guaranteed lifetime bonuses. However, retirees will only be able to access the product through its financial advisory network.
Developing uniform EU energy policy is challenging
Developing uniform energy policy in the EU has been challenging amid new regulation that has helped capital inflows into ESG-focused portfolio managers.
HESTA drops Origin Energy from watchlist following gas divestment
HESTA has dropped Origin Energy from a watchlist of carbon-intensive portfolio companies after the energy company announced plans to exit the controversial Beetaloo Basin gas project in Northern Territory and existing upstream exploration permits.
Equip Super beefs up defensive, real assets investment teams
Equip Super hires two senior portfolio managers to strengthen its defensive assets, alternatives and real assets team at a time when public markets have been hit by inflation and fears of steep interest rate hikes.
