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Stephane Andre

10 December 2019 • By Stephane Andre & Bruce Smith • 1 min read

Investing for good: Applying the UN Sustainable Development Goals to investing in Australian shares

The origins of socially responsible investing (SRI) can be traced back to the Quaker and Methodist movements in the mid-18th century. Around the sa...

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Bank weights overload Australians

With Westpac shares trading at a seven-year low following the alleged breach of anti-money laundering laws and three of the four big banks recently cu...

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ESG investing and investor engagement

As the Illinois State Treasurer, Michael W. Frerichs, said: “The investment decisions we make today will have a profound, lasting impact on our econ...

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Sustainable listed infrastructure – 2020 outlook

Looking forward into 2020, we expect the infrastructure asset class will continue to perform well, owing to its high barriers to entry, strong pricing...

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Are you regulator ready?

ASIC recently shared its strategic priorities for next year – and at the top are high-deterrence enforcement actions. ASIC has already announced...

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Safeguarding investor outcomes

Financial industries across the world thrive on an incentives-driven model, sometimes to the detriment of investors.  What are other countries doing ...

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The role of bonds in a negative rate world

With the recent dip in global yields, some old questions are resurfacing. Do low yields preclude bonds from hedging risk effectively? As bond yields m...

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Shareholder vs stakeholder capitalism – do we really have to choose?

In a well-publicised media release on 19 August, 181 chief executives representing the influential Business Roundtable (BR) signed a “Statement on t...

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Gold – The resilient asset in your portfolio

It was billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Singer who said, “If you want an alternative currency, check out gold. It has stood the test of thousands...

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The rise of index investing still spooks some investors - it shouldn’t

Index investing’s sharp rise in popularity over the past decade or so scares some people. And not in a fun, haunted-house kind of way. They see a...

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