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AXA IM develops carbon footpath strategy based on forward climate action

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... we're not going to decarbonise the portfolio by using point-in-time intensity, we leave open the door in maintaining investments in these sectors. We keep an investment in a broader swathe of the economy. I would also say it would be important keeping ...

Australian mutual fund assets rise to $66.8bn in 2019: Cerulli Associates

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
Australia's mutual fund assets in sustainable investments increased 23.0% year-on-year in 2019 to reach $66.8 billion, according to Cerulli Associates. Cerulli Associates said its estimates show that sustainable investments gathered $1.2 billion in ...

Investing for positive environment impact, financial return: First Sentier

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... environmental and social impact and as well as financial returns is the way to drive change, according to First Sentier Investments. Rebecca Myatt, portfolio manager for First Sentier's Sustainable Listed Infrastructure Fund Rebecca Myatt, portfolio ...

Taskforce recommends government support to build social impact investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... guide its involvement in the social impact investing market. Kylie Charlton, managing director of Australian Impact Investments The Social Impact Investing Taskforce has released its interim report examining the Commonwealth's role in the social impact ...

Comment: hindsight is 2020

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... environmental social and governance (ESG) didn't exist so investors didn't have to worry so much about the effect of CFCs on investments. They just had to worry about losses due to having to update machinery to remove CFCs. The good news is that the ...

Climate change, human rights risks intertwined: GCNA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... compulsory." The TCFD guidelines are voluntary and not compulsory in Australia. However, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, the Reserve Bank of Australia, the ASX Corporate Governance ...

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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... the number one inclusion topic and is three times as high as the next most frequently searched inclusion. Excluding investments in fossil fuel shows more than double as many searches as the next highest searched exclusion of human rights, and these searches ...

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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... or a change, it was really not anything that required anything at all apart from divesting from a few fossil fuel investments. In terms of the social aspects, in terms of governance aspect, they were all core to the process we had already established." ...

HESTA names Andrew Major chief risk and compliance officer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... and in-house role early in his career" In his previous role, Major led a team responsible for managing the Fund's investments in the Infrastructure, Private Equity, Property and other alternative investment strategies, including Impact Investments. Blakey ...

Climate-related policies "inevitable", but likely to be disorderly: IPR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... unusual position from an asset allocation perspective to react to these changes through capital recycling of real asset investments. "In future, real assets are going to be green," he said. "Australia is well placed from an asset allocation perspective. ...