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Rise in ESG commitment by global funds: Morningstar

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... "determination to incorporate ESG factors into their investment processes and deliver sustainability outcomes, relative to peers." Fund managers are evaluated on three pillars - philosophy and process, resources and active ownership. "Although demand ...

Ninety One launches emerging market transition debt fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
Global investment manager Ninety One has launched an emerging market debt strategy that will focus on investing in company issuance that finances the transition to a lower carbon economy. The Emerging Market Transition Debt (EMTD) will aim to provide ...

Growth in green bond issuance brings choice, challenges

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
The green, social and sustainability (GSS+) bond market is in its infancy, but the growth in issuance as well as fund strategies covering that category of bonds means investors have increased choice, but also questions about transparency and how to ...

Australia climbs quickly on climate policy development

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... Strategy, announced $2 billion for green hydrogen, and scaled up offshore wind development. The government announced it will co-fund the development of an Australian sustainable finance taxonomy, committed to women's economic empowerment in the climate ...

Hazardous chemicals a key challenge for investors

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
Investors should actively engage chemical companies, push for transparency, and allocate capital towards reductions in hazardous chemical production and its removal from the environment through innovative funding mechanisms such as green bonds. Global ...

ANZ sustainable fund flows buck global trend: Morningstar

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... sustainable funds gathered USD 63 billion, compared with USD 161 billion in 2022," Morningstar noted in its Global Sustainable Fund Flows: Q4 2023 Review. In Australia and New Zealand, "Dimensional was a key recipient of the inflows and gained an estimated ...

BlueScope receives funding for lower emissions project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... for projects that will lower emissions in steel production. The funding is drawn from the government's Powering the Regions Fund and will go towards projects in New South Wales and South Australia. BlueScope has been awarded $136.8 million towards the ...

Nature-related disclosures underway

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
Reporting on nature-related corporate disclosures with the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) is now underway, with the first 320 companies and financial institutions now taking part. The first cohort of adopters are taking steps ...

Australian gender pay gap data to be revealed from February

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
From February 2024, Australian companies with 100 or more employees will be required to publish their median gender pay gap between male and female employees. The Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) will publish the first set of private sector employer ...

Sunshine state issues $2.75bn green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... 70%, with Asian investors taking 17% of the issuance, EAMA at 12% and the Americas at 1%. The majority of investors were fund managers, at 53% of total investors, with banks taking 25%, institutions taking 10%, hedge funds taking 7% and traders taking ...