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Australian Sustainable Finance Initiative sets ambitious investment agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
... Australia's largest superannuation funds, insurance companies and industry groups have launched the Australian Sustainable Finance Initiative, a collaborative group to steer investment towards human wellbeing, social equity and environmental protection. ...

flexigroup issues $90.9 million Climate Bond certified green bond tranche

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) have invested $10 million in the latest flexigroup $90.9 million green bond issuance. The $90.9 million green bond issuance includes a large portion of rooftop solar, as well as a smaller portion of small-scale ...

BNP Paribas Asset Management launches global sustainability strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
... commitment to invest for the long term, engage with companies and regulators, and "raise awareness about the role that finance can play in achieving a sustainable world," according to the firm. "We are at a crossroads: now is the time for decisive action ...

Constructing an impact portfolio as stand-alone strategy: Nuveen

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
... business models, you can really scale and build processes," Unnithan said. "This is particularly true in areas like access to finance, insurance and education." The second core belief is that with global population growth projected to reach 9.7 billion ...

UBank launches world first certified Green Term Deposit

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
... not-for-profit organisation and the only one in the world working solely on mobilising the $100 trillion market for sustainable finance to help address climate change," said Glen Aiton, chief product innovation officer at UBank. "Pursuing the certification ...

Climate change high on agenda for Oliver Yates parliamentary bid

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
... of the forthcoming federal election, no more so than in the Melbourne electorate of Kooyong, where former Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) CEO Oliver Yates is running as an independent challenger to Treasurer Josh Freydenberg. Oliver Yates, independent ...

Australia, EU Free Trade Agreement includes SDGs, climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... nationally or regionally, and the role of the Addis Adaba - Agreement on Financing Sustainable Development and related green finance agreements. But it is one of the important pieces, the part of a jigsaw in actually creating globalisation of sustainable ...

Australian funds join international controversial weapons call

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... Morningstar, MSCI, S&P Dow Jones Indices and STOXX. The initiative began in Switzerland and is coordinated by Swiss Sustainable Finance. It has gathered momentum due to a presence on the PRI Collaboration Platform. "Aligning investor portfolios to established ...

Teachers Mutual Bank receives RIAA certification for products

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... account is certified," O'Connor noted. "We're really seeing that it's a shift from responsible investment to responsible finance, and the work we're doing at our membership base is reflecting that as well." RIAA Certification has been established as ...

IOSCO releases statement on ESG-related disclosures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2019  |  NEWS
... investor and issuer movements with regards to ESG-related disclosures and noted that they had established a Sustainable Finance Network of securities regulators to "share their experiences and engage in focused discussions about developments in the market ...