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QIC Real Estate secures $3.75bn SLL

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... portfolio into Sustainability-Linked Loans (SSL), taking its total sustainable financing to 73.4% of Australian property debt facilities. The funds are QIC Property Fund (QPF) at $2.8bn, and QIC Town Centre Fund (QTCF) at $925 million. ANZ, CBA, and ...

World Bank exit policy gets thumbs up from local experts

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... groups of taking part in an alleged "cover up", as reported by Nairobi newspaper Business Daily. In the last decade, 41% of debt investments with complaints attached were exited early; 88% of these were IFC cancellations or client-initiated pre-payments. ...

COP fails to bridge yawning funding gap

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... hit the hardest. Small Island Developing States said a new climate financing regime was needed that will not heighten their debt burden. A pledge of $720 million was reached on a fund to compensate developing nations for loss and damage from climate ...

Battery storage the next energy disruptor

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... Australia at ANZ Bank, said that in the last three years alone, they've been involved in over $6 billion dollars' worth of debt transactions in EV manufacturing. "One of these transactions was five times oversubscribed. It really is a showcase of how ...

Betashares launches first ethical bonds ETF

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... revenue) to the production or sale of junk foods. The strategy weights bonds on risk-adjusted income potential rather than a debt-weighted indexing approach. CEO Alex Vynokur says the ETF "represents a core portfolio building block for ethically minded ...

Australian Retirement Trust hires impact PMs

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... investor held several senior roles, serving as global head of legal and tax for corporate asset finance. There, Wilkin navigated debt and equity deals and advised on various finance transactions, new commercial ventures, investment opportunities, acquisitions ...

Australian Ethical awards front office mandate

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... product solutions for wholesale and institutional clients. Roberts also oversees Australian Ethical's Infrastructure Debt Fund, which finances local projects with a social or environmental benefit. Australian Ethical chief investment officer Ludovic ...

New alliance brings green data to financial markets

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... holdings, and can produce climate risk and emissions data across unlisted private equity, infrastructure, real estate and private debt. Emmi co-founder and CEO Michael Lebbon commented: "At Emmi we believe that a low carbon economy is possible, and that ...

Modern slavery: Time for more action

MANS CARLSSON  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... slavery as eight types of serious exploitation: trafficking in persons; slavery; servitude; forced marriage; forced labour; debt bondage; deceptive recruiting for labour or services; and the worst forms of child labour. Under the worst forms of child ...

Rural slavery risk raises ESG alarm

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... the Anti-Slavery Commissioner (OASC) tabled in the NSW Parliament this week found. "Modern slavery risks identified include debt bondage, deceptive recruiting, forced labour and, in extreme cases, servitude, sexual servitude and even human trafficking," ...