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Two new ETFs for Franklin Templeton

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2024  |  NEWS
... stocks." The fund does not invest in securities issued by companies that are directly involved in producing controversial weapons, tobacco products, and mining or extracting thermal coal, or extracting oil from tar sands subject to a 10% revenue threshold. ...

ESG indices linked to Myanmar junta

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... passive. In total, ESG-labelled funds managed by the five asset managers allegedly funneled shares worth US$13 billion to weapons dealers, tech firms and other firms linked to the military regime of the Southeast Asian nation. These include defence-related ...

Defunct fund pays greenwashing fine

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... $29,820 to comply with two infringement notices over allegations that its investor funds "were exposed to controversial weapons investments, despite Morningstar's Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) Policy stating that such investments ...

Government sets stage for sovereign green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... management. The government also outlined excluded projects - nuclear energy arms and ammunition manufacturing and chemical weapons manufacture; production or sale of alcohol, tobacco, and other recreational drugs manufacture or retail sale and distribution ...

Ethical investments recover performance: Chant West

ROSE MARY PETRASS, RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... ethical and impact investment policy and an impact framework. Its negative exclusions include fossil fuel production, weapons and armaments, alcohol, tobacco, gambling, deforestation, human rights violations and unethical corporate governance. It targets ...

First Sentier Investors to focus on armed conflict

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... sectoral approach." There are general sectors that are more impacted by the conflicts Turner identified - agriculture, weapons, automobiles, and banks, but the exposures in some cases were so diffuse that taking a broad sectoral approach didn't provide ...

NGS Super taps Robeco for global equities ESG mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 23 FEB 2023  |  NEWS
... benchmark is an adjusted MSCI World Index, structured to take into account NGS's exclusions of tobacco, controversial weapons, nuclear and fossil fuel exposures, said NGS Super head of equities, fixed income and alternatives Lucas Hartmann. "This ...

IML launches Sustainable Future Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2023  |  NEWS
... including companies that derive more than 10% of their revenue from tobacco production, gaming, pornography, thermal coal, weapons or armaments. It also positively screens companies via the IML Conscience Vote - the belief of managers that a selected ...

Vanguard, Hejaz, abrdn launch sustainable products

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2022  |  NEWS
... primarily operate in such sectors - i.e. tobacco, gambling, adult entertainment, conventional banking and insurance, pork, and weapons. The Hejaz Equities Fund is a growth fund with exposure to a diversified global equities portfolio of Sharia Compliant ...

Podcast: Finding solutions to meet Net Zero 2050 with Viola Lutz

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2022  |  NEWS
... risk and climate solutions, why quantitative ESG ratings alone aren't a silver bullet and why we have to use a variety of weapons to get to net zero. Lutz joined ISS in 2017, following its acquisition of the financial industry business of South Pole ...
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