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Global fund manager launches local climate transition fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... environmental, social and governance considerations. RIAA's Responsible Investment Certification recognizes products that align capital with achieving a healthy and sustainable society, environment and economy.

ARENA to provide finance for pumped hydro facility

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... the final piece of the $777 million project financing package for the project through the launch of a fully underwritten capital raising to raise $90 million. The capital raising will allow Genex to proceed with the construction and operation of the ...

Westpac inks $350 million sustainability linked loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... 2020. Institutional clients are interested in SLLs because of the alignment of sustainability initiatives with cost of capital, but are also driven by other considerations, Chen said. "A lot of it is also driven by investors," he said. "Investors are ...

Social issues come to fore in 2020: Ausbil

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... "COVID in itself has drawn attention to social issues more broadly among investors as well as brought more focus on human capital development," said Mans Carlsson, head of ESG research at Ausbil. "That was one of the catalysts, but not the only one. ...

Setting the standards for diversity within funds management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... investing. "Diversity and inclusion is a key part of the S or Social component in ESG and we look for indicators around human capital management such as employee hiring and retention," Signori said. "It also goes to governance, when we talk about the ...

Serving up meat's sustainability risks, opportunities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... as part of product portfolios. Van der Werf noted that lab-cultured meat protein is still mostly the realm of "venture capital and start-ups," although a few companies are operating pilot programs around that. Robeco is also tracking changing consumer ...

C-suite executives cite climate as top risk to growth: EY

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... over other global executives, which still view the pandemic as the biggest risk to growth, according to EY's 2021 Capital Confidence Barometer. Climate change was viewed as the top risk to growth by 18% of Australian corporate executives. Climate ...

We must approach public equities with an 'impact' mindset

KATHRYN MCDONALD, HEIDI RIDLEY  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... over the coming years. While only 2% of 'impact' investments are in public equities today, 10% of the invested capital resides in the category thanks to comparatively larger deal sizes. By broadening their investable universe to include public ...

Social, governance risks to unequal global vaccine distribution

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... commitments to support investment in COVID-19 vaccines, medicines and testing. Signatories from Australia include AMP Capital, Australian Ethical Investment, Aware Super, Ethical Partners Funds Management, HESTA, Local Government Super, and Statewide ...

Majority of CFOs see ESG's importance to business

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... greater sources of both risk and value in the longer term when it comes to achieving strategic business objectives and capital allocation." Nearly half of CFOs - 40% - factor ESG impacts into their planning and decision making some of the time, and 36% ...