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We must approach public equities with an 'impact' mindset

KATHRYN MCDONALD, HEIDI RIDLEY  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... achieving the daunting mission at hand! The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) 2020 Survey estimates that impact investment assets under management totalled US$715 billion at the end of 2019. While this seems like a sizeable sum -- and one that has ...

ESG a total-portfolio subject: bfinance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... ESG Integration has risen from 29% three years ago to 64% while negative screening has risen from 29% to 53%. Impact investment and thematic investment are still used by a minority of investors in each asset class, but their popularity has risen dramatically ...

Pendal to launch sustainable water, waste strategy, hire two

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... executive officer of Pendal Group. "Regnan's focus is on delivering innovative and specialist sustainable and impact investment solutions, drawing on over 20 years of experience at the frontier of responsible investment. Pendal's hiring of Lecourt ...

Circular economy a key investment theme: American Century

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... constantly consuming new things and disregarding old things, and that's not sustainable." American Century' s impact investment thesis rests on five sustainability pillars which roll-up to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - environmental ...

Integrating impact investing in listed equity portfolios

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... Benchmarking Impact Australian Impact Investor Insights, Activity and Performance Report 2020, "the vast majority of impact investment products are dominated by green, social and sustainability bonds ($17 billion), while the remaining $2.9 billion in ...

Super fund shuffles team, investment chief steps down

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... a member. Macready was chief investment officer at Christian Super but recently stepped down to focus on the impact investment advisory business he founded, Brightlight.

Industry considers Australian sustainable finance taxonomy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... the targets and scanning the investible universe. If you had, for instance, a standard definition on what an impact investment fund was, then when your clients say I want to do impact investing, you would connect it to the common definition and we would ...

Victorian social housing commitment potential opportunity for impact investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... committed $5.3 billion to build social and community housing over the next four years, a move that could catalyse impact investment in social and affordable housing. Earlier this week, Premier Daniel Andrews announced that the $5.3 billion spend will ...

Real asset investments as vehicle for return, positive impact

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
Investing in real assets that have positive social and/or environmental impacts means investors gain more than a source of return that is non-correlated to other asset classes. During a recent webinar sponsored by Channel Capital, Matthew Tominc, CIO ...

Understanding Impact Investment

MATTHEW TOMINC  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... opportunity for uncorrelated returns. With all this growing attention and demand, however, we must be mindful that impact investment offerings are making a real positive impact, and not just applying a label. Key to this is understanding a manager's ...