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ESG · Investor Education · 8 MIN READ

The Water Is Slowly Warming: Systemic Risks Investors Are Underpricing

Most investors tend to think of systemic risk as something that arrives with a bang, like a banking crisis, a pandemic, or a war. Increasingly, the more realistic systemic dangers are slower to gauge and harder to price. They are an ominous set of interconnected and interacting stresses that have the potential to degrade the very conditions required for markets to compound at all.

Simon Turner - Head of Content (CFA)
Simon TurnerHead of Content (CFA)
4 Mar 2026

Investing in Line with Your Values Without Sacrificing Returns

For a growing number of investors, what they own in their portfolios is as important as the returns they generate. Or, at least it’s a much more important consideration for them than it used to be. As a result, the various forms of responsible and value-driven investment have been transitioning from niche to mainstream for some time now. The Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) estimates that Australian responsible investment assets reached $1.6 trillion in 2023, and accounted for 41% of total managed funds assets.

ESGManaged FundETFInvestor Education
25 Nov 2025
 · Simon Turner
 · 9 MIN READ

Investing in Line with Your Values Without Sacrificing Returns

For a growing number of investors, what they own in their portfolios is as important as the returns they generate. Or, at least it’s a much more important consideration for them than it used to be. As a result, the various forms of responsible and value-driven investment have been transitioning from niche to mainstream for some time now. The Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) estimates that Australian responsible investment assets reached $1.6 trillion in 2023, and accounted for 41% of total managed funds assets.

ESGManaged FundETFInvestor Education
25 Nov 2025
 · Simon Turner
 · 9 MIN READ

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ESG doesn’t mean impact

As the transition towards a low carbon, more sustainable world accelerates, many investors have assumed that ESG is connected with the impact needed to address the world’s environmental and social challenges for the simple reason they hear the term so often. But there’s more to it than that. So what is ESG? And what isn’t it?

ESGManaged FundInvestor Education
31 July 2024
 · Simon Turner
 · 7 MIN READ

Why ethical management teams are the best kind

Most successful investors will testify to the fact that selecting outperforming stocks is as much about identifying high quality management teams as it is about analysing the numbers, arguably more so. With outperformance in mind, one of the leading indicators of a high quality management team is their ethics. It’s an area worthy of investor attention.

ESGInvestment ThemesInvestor Education
1 Sept 2023
 · Simon Turner
 · 5 MIN READ

How to use ESG scores to your advantage

As more investors understand the performance-enhancing and risk-reducing benefits of investing in ESG oriented strategies, demand for ESG data is on the rise. That’s all good and well, but how can individual investors benefit from integrating ESG scores into their decision-making process without being ESG experts?

ESGSharesInvestor Education
30 June 2023
 · Simon Turner
 · 6 MIN READ

Profiting from the energy transition

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which is leading the global scientific assessment of climate change, estimates that human activities have already caused around 1°C of global warming above pre-industrial levels. If global warming continues at the current rate, the IPCC estimates it will reach 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels between 2030 and 2052.

ESGMining, Resources & EnergyInvestor Education
22 May 2023
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 · 7 MIN READ

Investing Ethically

Ethical investment funds aren’t new. Some people have always shunned investments associated with harmful activities such as uranium mining, deforestation and arms manufacture. Instead, they’ve looked for opportunities in renewable energy, education and healthcare.

ESGSharesInvestor Education
9 Dec 2022
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 · 3 MIN READ

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