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Addressing the need to separate shareholder returns from real planetary impact, Robeco created its own framework that captures a company’s contribution to mitigating climate change.

Director Casey Taylor says money will be invested into eight impact investment projects, with $150 million going towards Victorian social housing.

While data is a big part of the Michael Birch’s new property fund play, he says the real key to running a rent roll investment is maintaining relationships.

Senior secured loans act as an important inflationary hedge in times of rising inflation according to the firm’s chief investment officer.

ETFs have revolutionised the investing universe for many good reasons. But ultimately ETFs are just like stocks – there are the good, the bad and the ugly.

The pendulum may have swung back towards active management this year, but the domestic ETF market is flush with options and continues to steal FUM.

Moving to a sustainable investment portfolio can reduce an individual’s carbon emissions by 90 per cent, research from Stockspot has shown.

Structured the right way, private debt can provide options that both cater to the defensive sleeve of a portfolio and serve as a proxy for equity market investments.

One part of the market that is benefitting from inflation and interest rate increases is private debt; senior secured loans, in particular, have returned 4.8 per cent over the past two years.

The respected corporate adviser and manager is laying it all on the line after “rolling the sleeves up” on multi-faceted research for his new property-based fund.

Companies that win the advocacy of their clients have a remarkable ability to increase their own value according to research from the people who invented net promoter scores.

The team at Ausbil have come up with a novel way to generate income without increasing risk or removing alpha generating opportunities.