Asian investors slow at implementing ESG

Just nine per cent of more than 5,000 investment strategies in the Asia-Pacific region meet the highest standards of environmental, social and governance investing, says Mercer. Since 2008 Mercer has assigned a 4 point scale to investment strategies based on how ESG guidelines. Funds are assessed on how integrated such principals are in active fund … Read more

Matthew Drennan to leave Zurich asset management

Matthew Drennan, who was in charge of about $5 billion in assets under management at Zurich Financial Services Australia Ltd., will leave the company by the end of the month. Zurich is merging its investments and life insurance business. Drennan, a nine-year company veteran, has been discarded. He will not be replaced. “I’m assessing my … Read more

Charles River wins new asset management clients

Asset managers will continue to use software companies to help with trading, analysis and trade settlement as spending on such activity is down by a quarter, according to Charles River Development. Asset managers are “bottom line driven. They divest themselves of a lot of costly systems, data, staff,” says Cameron Field, managing director Asia Pacific … Read more

Charles River wins new asset management clients

Asset managers will continue to use software companies to help with trading, analysis and trade settlement as spending on such activity is down by a quarter, according to Charles River Development. Asset managers are “bottom line driven. They divest themselves of a lot of costly systems, data, staff,” says Cameron Field, managing director Asia Pacific … Read more

Eng Teck Tan on European bank lending in Asia

Watch part two of an Investment Magazine roundtable held on the sidelines of the Markets Summit on 14 February 2011. Editor Simon Mumme speaks with asset class specialists from funds management companies in Australia and Asia: – Victor Rodriguez, head of Australian fixed income, Aberdeen Asset Management – Eng Teck Tan, investment manager, Treasury Asia Asset Management – … Read more

Ian Harding on what the euro crisis means for Australian stocks

Watch part three of an Investment Magazine roundtable held on the sidelines of the Markets Summit on 14 February 2011. Editor Simon Mumme speaks with asset class specialists from funds management companies in Australia and Asia: Victor Rodriguez, head of Australian fixed income, Aberdeen Asset Management : Victor Rodrigues on the Greek Debt crisis Victor Rodriguez talks Australian … Read more

Andrew Parsons on debt crisis fallout for Eastern Europe

Watch part four of an Investment Magazine roundtable held on the sidelines of the Markets Summit on 14 February 2011. Editor Simon Mumme speaks with asset class specialists from funds management companies in Australia and Asia: Victor Rodriguez, head of Australian fixed income, Aberdeen Asset Management : Victor Rodrigues on the Greek Debt crisis Victor Rodriguez talks Australian … Read more

Victor Rodriguez on the Greek debt crisis

Watch part one of an Investment Magazine roundtable held on the sidelines of the Markets Summit on 14 February 2011.     Editor Simon Mumme speaks with asset class specialists from funds management companies in Australia and Asia: Victor Rodriguez, head of Australian fixed income, Aberdeen Asset Management : Victor Rodrigues on the Greek Debt crisis … Read more