First State Super

PRI in Person

Pizza and diversity: How funds move dial

Empowering long-term influential asset owners to invest responsibly is the key to hastening take-up in responsible investment. Delegates heard how some leading asset owners are doing this through their diversity and ESG practices.

Sarah RundellSeptember 11, 2019

Sustainability

Momentum in ESG in Asia

Asia's largest institutional investors help spread the ESG movement in emerging markets.

Elizabeth FryMay 9, 2019

Investor Profile

First State: superannuation’s evolution

Most of Australia’s retirement system is still just heading towards investing with scale for both accumulation and pension phase. The A$70 billion First State Super and CIO Damian Graham are already there. So what do its investments look like?

October 25, 2018

Asset Classes

ESG scrutiny hits private markets

Listed assets aren’t the only investments under more scrutiny. As funds strive for sustainability, they are now applying that rigour even to notoriously opaque classes such as private equity.

Amanda WhiteJanuary 9, 2018

Uncategorised posts

Why investors employ smart beta strategies

The common view is smart beta is used to side step expensive active equity managers or hedge fund managers whose processes are on the surface opaque, but on close investigation turn out to be largely beta like in approach. As investors have gained experience and familiarity they have also learnt about how it offers greater […]

David RowleyJuly 31, 2015