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Green Moves: Aus Ethical, S&P, Zevero, Pangolin

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... risk analysis business, for 14 years. Closer to home, carbon accounting firm Zevero has hired John Leung as head of Asia Pacific. In April, the UK decarbonisation platform was purchased by Singaporean climate tech startup LEVELUP. Leung was previously ...

Exec pay lands listed firms in hot water

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... accountability at AGMs, which we also expect to continue in the upcoming Australian AGM season," said Paul Murphy, head of ESG Asia Pacific at Georgeson. Murphy said that the key remuneration issues that led to negative votes included: * uncapped cash ...

Climate finance gets $100bn boost: ADB

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... annual financing. This comes in response to "cascading shocks" that have "derailed years of development progress" in Asia Pacific, according to ADB president Masatsugu Asakawa. "ADB is updating its vision, expanding its financial capacity, and modernising ...

State Street receives Shariah-compliant certificate

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 19 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... trillion in 2022 to US$6.67 trillion in 2027. By aligning operating models to Shariah principles, State Street head of Asia Pacific Stefan Gmuer said State Street stands to benefit. "The global Islamic finance industry has experienced strong growth over ...

S&P Global gains top sustainability expert

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... Investors' ethics and impact manager earlier worked for S&P competitor MSCI becoming its first ESG consultant in Asia Pacific. So when a similar job came up at the firm known for its rating agency business and stock market indices, she jumped at ...

Gender lens investing to receive $1.5bn injection

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... bond in general compared to those issued in the market," said Xuan Sheng Ou Yong, sustainable fixed income lead, Asia Pacific, at BNP Paribas Asset Management. He said that the small size makes sense because it could be potentially challenging for a ...

Morningstar boosts ESG focus with new hire

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... has worked for Thomson Reuters and Refinitiv and headed up the sustainable finance and investment sales efforts for Asia Pacific at the London Stock Exchange Group. She was most recently chief commercial officer for Viridios AI, the global carbon data ...

Cromwell restructures lending facility

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... Global financial services firm Societe Generale acted as sustainability coordinator. The loan is aligned with the Asia Pacific Loan Market Association's (APLMA) green loan principles and sustainability-linked loan principles. It is tied to a Scope 1 ...

Geopolitical risks push APAC family office allocations locally

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
Geopolitical risks are dictating how family offices in the Asia Pacific invest as more intend to shift asset allocations to their home regions, according to UBS. Family offices surveyed in the UBS Global Family Office Report across the Asia Pacific ...

RIAA: Green bonds broaden investor appeal

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2024  |  NEWS
... a structural perspective but also on a host of details," said Xuan Sheng Ou Yong, sustainable fixed income lead, Asia Pacific, at BNP Paribas Asset Management. "Bond issuers must provide exhaustive use-of-proceeds information, demonstrating how they ...