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Specialist in Asia Pacific, Japan, China, India and South East Asia and Global Emerging Market equities.

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formerly Realindex Investments

Leader in active quantitative equities across Australian equities, global equities, emerging markets and global small companies.

Backed by a unique blend of research, portfolio construction and risk management, focused on uncovering original insights and translating them into investment strategies that are active and systematic, aiming to generate alpha.

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At Stewart Investors, we believe in putting people first. Our investment world-view is of a series of partnerships – with each other, with our clients, with the companies we invest in, the people who buy their goods and services, and with the wider society in which we all live and work.

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Is gender diversity an alpha signal?

As a systematic manager, Realindex looks at Environmental, Social and Governance factors (ESG) from a data-driven perspective. Factors such as carbon intensity or gender diversity can provide signals that a stock may generate outperformance. These ESG insights can be just as compelling for company valuations as other ‘quality’ metrics.

Rachel Alembakis, editor of FS Sustainability and host of The Greener Way podcast, invited Joanna Nash, Senior Quantitative Portfolio Manager, to discuss Realindex’s research on this topic.  In this conversation, they discuss ESG in systematic portfolios, and dive into the research on gender diversity and its links to company performance. The episode also includes an interview with Louise Davidson from the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors, about gender diversity for leadership teams.

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