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Property fund inks multi-billion dollar sustainability linked loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
... Australia's largest sustainability linked loan (SLL) has been inked, providing nearly $3 billion in finance linked to ESG improvements across a diversified property portfolio. Industry Super Property Trust (ISPT) has completed the SLL transaction ...

First Sentier launches private debt strategy with renewable energy assets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
... First Sentier is leveraging its relationship with parent company MUFG Bank, as part of the broader group-wide approach around ESG. "The relations we've built up with MUFG have allowed us to broaden out that capability," says Tony Togher, head of fixed ...

Steep rise in demand for ESG wealth management products: EY

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2021  |  NEWS
... Australia is lower than global and APAC in feeling that their wealth manager understood their values." Interest in specific ESG themes has increased over the past year, and is growing fastest among the industry's wealthiest clients, the EY report ...

Responsible investors called to action on First Nations Peoples

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2021  |  NEWS
... event. Muir spoke with FS Sustainability ahead of the conference. "We're going through this at the moment in a lot of ESG conversations," Muir says. "Economic models and economic means in the developed world in particular are undergoing transformation ...

Calculating value of biodiversity: BNP Paribas Asset Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2021  |  NEWS
... biodiversity analysis, water usage and deforestation analysis into their multi-pillar approach to sustainable investing - ESG analysis, stewardship activities, including voting on deforestation proposals at AGMs and engaging with companies over concerns ...

S&P Dow Jones launches new ESG indices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2021  |  NEWS
S&P Dow Jones Indices has launched sustainable versions of its Dividend Aristocrats suite of indices. S&P Developed ESG Dividend Aristocrats Index, the S&P ESG High Yield Dividend Aristocrats Index, the S&P Global ESG Dividend Aristocrats Index, the ...

Client demand pushing action on ESG conversation: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2021  |  NEWS
Retail investor demand for ESG products across the spectrum is intensifying, but advisers are still working to incorporate questions to figure out their clients' appetite for products in the ethical space. Moving from conversation to action, and ...

Earth Day brings tidings of climate change commitments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2021  |  NEWS
... of President Biden's stated goal of bringing US leadership back to the climate change debate, Guillaume Mascotto, head of ESG and Investment Stewardship for American Century Investments, notes that while investing in renewable energy assets in the US ...

Rest launches Sustainable Growth option

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2021  |  NEWS
... portfolio is based on the MSCI World Index ex-Australia (for Overseas Shares), with negative screens applied using the Rest ESG criteria. This results in an 'Acceptable Universe' for investment, Rest said. The positive tilts are derived from the Calvert ...

Using total portfolio management to gain China, ESG exposure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2021  |  NEWS
... to Willis Towers Watson. Investors are interested in allocating capital to Chinese investment, but are mindful of managing ESG related risks and opportunities, Willis Towers Watson notes. By looking at risk factors in aggregate across portfolios, investors ...