AustralianSuper’s Andrew Gray said the fund has not ruled out using green bonds as a tool to reach its ambitious target of net-zero carbon emissions for its entire investment portfolio by 2050.
During a candid discussion, the man who guided Australia through the 2019/20 fires revealed his own father’s untimely death while battling bushfires shocked him “to the core”, but the tragedy firmed his resolve to live a life serving the community.
Members might end up being stranded in funds that become undesirable to potential suitors because they have a chance of underperforming over multiple years or hold poor preforming assets relative to a listed benchmark, new research shows.
The Retirement Income Review is clever for a number of reasons, not least because it managed to simplify complexity and create a structured case for improving retirement outcomes by not increasing the SG, all without without making any recommendations.
The impact of Covid and the change in working habits has unlocked the talent competition where somebody can be in another country and recruiting your employees, Franklin Templeton’s global CEO Jenny Johnson.
It’s not uncommon for VC Antler to spend months working side by side with founders of startups before deciding to invest in them, according to CEO and founder, Magnus Grimeland.
It’s time to take the opportunity to think differently about insurance in superannuation, AIA Australia chief executive Damien Mu has said.
Central banks have become addicted to providing monetary stimulus at the first sign of trouble and are finding it hard to reverse that course, according to MFS Investment Management’s Barnaby Wiener.
Greenwashing is apparent when an organisation spends more time marketing themselves as environmentally sound, rather than actually minimising their environmental footprint, Regnan’s Tim Crockford outlines.
SDGs can lead to a tick a box approach; investors need to focus on outputs and changing the behaviour in portfolio companies, a panel has heard.
The reference portfolio might only be reviewed every five years, says Stephen Gilmore, but it sets out the fund’s risk appetite and lays down a framework the investment committee can use as an anchor when they chase active returns. ‘It’s an equilibrium concept,’ the CIO says.
There are huge implications for global investors in the ongoing shift in the balance of economic power from the west to the east which has been further catalysed by Covid-19, the Bridgewater co-chief investment officer has said.
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