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Analysing the opportunities, challenges of the ESG investing sector

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... that there are decisions that are being made in line with it." These questions aren't just being posed to investors and fund managers, Whelan said. "It is a question that a lot of market participants are asking themselves now," she said. "There is ...

New ethical fund appoints Equity Trustees as RE

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
The Haven Wealth Partners Ethical Absolute Return Fund is a value-focused ethical absolute return fund, which applies positive and negative screens to its investments in companies that are aligned to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Haven Wealth ...

Federated Hermes launches climate change high yield credit strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... Federated Hermes Climate Change High Yield Credit Strategy is seeded by and designed in partnership with Swedish National Pension Fund AP1, and seeks to generate long-term, risk-adjusted outperformance through climate-aligned, attractive high-yield credit ...

HESTA CEO joins corporate governance board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
HESTA CEO Debby Blakey has been appointed to the Board of the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN). Blakey is the only Australian board member, whose members are responsible for assets of more than $79 trillion. ICGN represents institutional ...

IFM Investors sets 2030 emissions target

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
The $174 billion manager owned by industry funds will reduce the carbon footprint of its infrastructure assets by 40% by 2030, as it heads down the path to net zero by 2050. IFM Investors has set its interim emissions reduction target for the infrastructure ...

Boral to go net zero by 2050

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... and steel slag aggregates, for which it has received up to $2.4 million from the federal government's CCUS Development Fund. "CCUS is a proven technology, but it hasn't been proven at scale," Todorcevski said. "We're doing work on a pilot ...

Merlon Capital hires sustainability manager

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
Boutique Australian equity fund manager Merlon Capital Partners has hired Rebecca El-Khoury as sustainability manager. El-Khoury joined Merlon from TransGrid where she was a sustainability manager within the corporate strategy and sustainability team. ...

Asset consultants keep gates closed on greenwashing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
Regulators are taking on greenwashing in financial products and asset consultants are standing close by to ensure fund managers are offering products and services that are true to their ESG label. Media outlets have reported that German asset manager ...

Assessing the financial, ESG benefits of agricultural investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... commodity is the environmental market." Based solely on current activities in the federal government's Emissions Reduction Fund, generation of carbon credits and biodiversity activities already have a measurable, positive return profile, O'Leary said. ...

HSBC Australia to explore mangrove bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... mangroves and other benefits as well, Bhattacharjee said. The Queensland state government has a $500 million Land Restoration Fund, which aims to expand carbon farming in the state by supporting land-sector projects that deliver additional environmental ...