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Sydney Airport issues $600m bond with sustainability linked tranche

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... facilitating direct Australian dollar investment," said Matthew Carr, MUFG's managing director and head of debt capital markets for Australia and New Zealand. "We are proud to have priced the world's first ESG-linked tranche and to have partnered with ...

Integrating ESG considerations in securities lending programs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... understand how firms can integrate their lending programs and their approach to ESG," said Mark Snowdon, head of capital markets, Asia Pacific at Northern Trust. "The most obvious area of focus on marrying an effective ESG policy with a securities lending ...

Pricing, liquidity, standards challenge green bond market: Aviva Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2019  |  NEWS
... Investment Officer, Credit, at Aviva Investors. "We don't think that's going to be reached through green bonds. The capital markets are huge, they do have money that can support projects and can get thru that quantum if it's wide-reaching, and in order ...

Put climate resilience at the core of business strategy: WBCSD

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2019  |  NEWS
... transformation to resilient business models are key elements in building business climate resilience." The movements in capital markets to reflect the prioritisation towards climate resilience will also impact on business action, Petersen said. BCSD ...

Rainmaker Group acquires The Sustainability Report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
... governance (ESG) factors is now a mainstream investment issue for all fund trustee boards, their fiduciaries and the capital markets," said Christopher Page, Rainmaker managing director. Illustrating this, almost two thirds of Australia's investment ...

Fidelity International appoints Jenn-Hui Tan global head of stewardship

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2019  |  NEWS
... Jenn-Hui Tan, global head of stewardship and sustainable investing, Fidelity International Tan was previously head of capital markets and corporate governance for Asia Pacific. In his new role, Tan will be responsible for providing external and internal ...

AIIB, Aberdeen Standard Investments form strategic partnership

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2019  |  NEWS
... Investment Bank (AIIB) and Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) have formed a strategic partnership to develop debt capital markets for infrastructure and drive responsible investing in fixed income as well as "build a sustainable environmental, social ...

Fidelity International develops proprietary sustainability ratings system

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
... proprietary sustainability ratings system applicable to equity and fixed income assets. Jenn-Hui Tan, head of capital markets and corporate governance at Fidelity International. The system covers Fidelity's investment universe of over 3,000 issuers ...

NSW government to issue a second Sustainability & Social Bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
... outcomes. The NSW Government will ensure the programmes allocated funding from the bonds align with the International Capital Markets Association Sustainability Bond Guidelines and map to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Sustainable Melbourne Fund receives new loan facility, new name

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2019  |  NEWS
... in EUF deals, and with such a good quality asset underpinning those, we expect those to be very attractive to capital markets," Bocskay said. "We're investing in staff and resourced to help the origination and scaling of our annual origination efforts. ...