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Sustainable finance heavyweight to chair National Reconstruction Fund board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... Throughout his 30-year career, he has served in senior executive and board roles across banking and financial services, management consulting and postal services, including as managing director and CEO of Australia Post, Latitude Financial, NAB Australia ...

Climate disclosure lawsuit against Commonwealth settled

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... the respondents - the Commonwealth of Australia, the chief executive officer of the Australian Office of Financial Management, and the secretary of the Department of Treasury - settled the case on 7 August under terms of a confidential heads of agreement ...

Morgan Stanley reaches 70% of $1tn sustainable finance goal

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... removal, and social housing within multiple divisions of the bank including securitised products, commodities, and wealth management. Morgan Stanley's Sustainable Finance Framework is maintained by the Global Sustainability Office and considers the United ...

Are indexes the next target for greenwashing investigations?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... index," and how the manager conducts ongoing monitoring of the index constituents for the purposes of general investment management activities as well as stewardship activities. "Unsurprisingly, we've found over the years that managers of index strategies ...

Podcast: Solving the social housing crisis - Casey Taylor

THE GREENER WAY  |  THURSDAY, 3 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... episode of The Greener Way, we're talking investing in affordable housing with Casey Taylor from Conscious Investment Management. By any conceivable measure, affordable housing is a crisis in Australia, with a variety of potential mechanisms being ...

Scope 3 emissions: an explainer for SMEs

ELISHA BRILLANTES, MEI LING HO  |  THURSDAY, 3 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... to the GHG Protocol, Scope 3 greenhouse gas (GHG Protocol) (a globally recognized standard for the measurement and management of GHG emission), Scope 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions account for more than 70% of a business's carbon footprint. In ...

La Trobe Uni issues $175m green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... green bond that will fund projects in areas including renewable energy, green building, sustainable water and waste management and other initiatives. The Melbourne-based university's inaugural green bond was issued under the International Capital ...

Using ChatGPT to assess climate targets: Acadian

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
Acadian Asset Management is utilizing the technology underpinning ChatGPT to predict whether companies are likely to achieve sustainability targets. The Acadian Net Zero Alignment Model integrates large learning models (LLM), the type of AI algorithm ...

Brookfield signs MoU for renewables

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
Brookfield Asset Management has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with India's largest private sector enterprise Reliance Industries, a Fortune 500 company, to manufacture renewable energy and decarbonisation equipment in Australia. The ...

AustralianSuper grows global team with numerous hires

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... classes. Shah, formerly of Tesco Pension Fund, has held roles at The Bank of England, Goldman Sachs, and BMO Global Asset Management. At AustralianSuper, Shah manages the fund's government bonds portfolios and team in the UK and Australia. Gilshan ...