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Frasers Property Australia establishes Sustainable Finance Framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
Frasers Property Australia has established its first Sustainable Finance Framework, defining an entire portfolio of sustainable assets and designed to support sustainability-linked bonds and loans. Anthony Boyd, chief financial officer, Frasers Property ...

Comment: hindsight is 2020

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... replace machinery that relied on CFCs. It has similarly taken a long time for climate scientists to convince and influence portfolio managers of the long-term risks of increases in severe weather due to changing climactic conditions. Regulators and investment ...

Small, mid-caps list governance, social as top ESG concerns: Perennial

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... well as areas of future improvement, according to a survey conducted by Perennial Value Management. Damian Cottier, portfolio manager, Perennial Value Management In 2019, Perennial Value Management conducted its inaugural Sustainable Future survey, gauging ...

BetaShares ethical ETFs surpass $1 billion funds under management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... positive climate leadership screen, with a broad set of ESG criteria to ensure investors are accessing a 'true to label' portfolio of ethically-focused Australian companies. Both ETFs have a tilt towards "climate leaders" - companies that exhibit best ...

Company, investor climate change partnership "essential": Robeco

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... promotes innovation with a minimum of harm to the environment, future proofing of the company's business strategy, asset portfolio resilience, and public policy aims around measurable, transparent reporting. Within the objectives, different targets can ...

Analysis: climate change, Australia and the fierce urgency of now

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
As bushfires continue to burn across the southeast of Australia, the push is on to implement effective responses to minimise risk and optimise opportunities stemming from climate change across the economy. Business, finance and civil society are seeking ...

Companies that manage ESG issues "more resilient": Saturna Capital

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... better,"Klimo said. "There are companies that are aggregating the data so you can look at it across the US or across a global portfolio. There are holes in it, obviously, and any of the companies that are aggregating data are limited to what the company ...

Eurozone outperforms North America in ESG investing: Amundi

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... lagged from 2010 and 2017, since 2018, Social is now the best performing pillar, Amundi said. "We found that when a portfolio took a long position in the 20% best-ranked stocks and a short in the 20% worst-ranked stocks, this contributed to an annualised ...

ESG data can augment low-volatility quant strategies: Northern Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... exposure to that volatility when markets are rising, and takes ESG quality into consideration when constructing the portfolio. "The whole thesis of the strategy is that you want to participate in the equity market when the market is going up, with a ...

ASFI identifies six critical challenges for sustainable finance roadmap

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... of practice that are going to enable us to be able to value properly, assess risk properly, and aggregate that on a portfolio wide basis." This then leads to unlocking sustainable finance and capital. "As much as we want to put unlocking capital as number ...