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Australian government awards $1.23m to Impact Investment Exchange

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2019  |  NEWS
... Trade (DFAT) has awarded AU$1.23 million to Impact Investment Exchange (IIX) - a global organization driving impact investing - to develop the ecosystem for gender lens investing in Asia. Durreen Shahnaz, CEO and founder of IIX IIX operates an online ...

Climate risk necessitates short and long term stress testing: Mercer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019  |  NEWS
Investing in climate solutions can bring a low carbon transition premium for institutional investors, increasing the urgency for investors to gauge short term as well as long-term impacts of climate change according to new research from Mercer. Helga ...

Global responsible investment assets top US$30 trillion: GSIA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019  |  NEWS
... Investment Review 2018, and the findings show that the Australasian region is leading globally in the uptake of responsible investing, with 63% of total assets under management in Australia and New Zealand using a responsible investment, according to ...

flexigroup issues $90.9 million Climate Bond certified green bond tranche

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
... issuers have the opportunity to develop a broader range of bonds to tap into this demand." The CEFC has a long record of investing in the emerging climate bonds market, having committed $489 million to 11 bond issuances since it began investing in 2013 ...

BNP Paribas Asset Management launches global sustainability strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
... and stewardship, responsible business conduct expectations and sector-based exclusions setting out "the conditions for investing in particular sectors, and guide screening requirements and engagement. The sector policies are applied across all open-ended ...

Constructing an impact portfolio as stand-alone strategy: Nuveen

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
Impact investing is a stand-alone strategy to develop portfolio construction towards achieving particular environmental and social outcomes and outputs, according to Nuveen Private Markets. Rekha Unnithan, the lead impact portfolio manager for Nuveen ...

Climate change high on agenda for Oliver Yates parliamentary bid

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
... nothing wrong in the government participating in the electricity sector," he said. Yates has fitting qualifications in investing government money in renewable projects,as well as building cross-party political support. During Yates' time at the CEFC ...

Raiz Invest partners with UNSW on machine-learning technology

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
Micro-investing app Raiz Invest is partnering with the University of New South Wales (UNSW) to use the university's machine-learning technology to optimise its Raiz Rewards offering. George Lucas, Instreet Managing Director Raiz Rewards is a loyalty ...

Corporate culture a factor in stock selection: WCM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... stewardship." Corporate culture is used as an investment signal by WCM, both in the positive sense, as in a company worth investing or, or a negative sense, as in a company worth avoiding. It is less clear as to whether a company with poor culture can ...

Australian funds join international controversial weapons call

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... Head of Investments. "Together with other asset owners, we are in a position to make a huge difference to responsible investing, which we know is something many of our members value. We believe that active and passive investments should, by default ...