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State Street Global Advisors to list new ESG ETF on ASX

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
State Street Global Advisors will list a new environmental, social and governance (ESG) ETF on the ASX early next month. Meaghan Victor, head of SPDR ETF Asia Pacific distribution The SPDR S&P/ASX 200 ESG Fund (E200) tracks the S&P/ASX 200 ESG Index ...

Sefa to increase financing to social enterprises and build resilience

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... balance sheet to utilise the government allocation, and the idea is to invite other impact investors to provide additional capital to scale the scheme," she noted. Sefa is one of the smaller participants in the Coronavirus Small and Medium Enterprise ...

Taking a closer look at corporate lobbying on climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... unpredictable changes in climate change and energy policy; this limits a company's ability to play for the future and to deploy capital in a cost-effect manner. It damages the reputation of industry sectors and of industry associations, undermining their ...

ESG integration "crucial" to credit investments: Janus Henderson

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... and therefore don't have the ability to exert influence via proxy, the way we can influence a company is by withholding capital when they need it in the form of a new deal. Companies raise money in Australia all the time, and every time they do that ...

Sefa selected as lender to government Coronavirus guarantee scheme

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... potential investment partners as part of this process. "We invite potential partners to contact us about contributing capital to the pool available to purpose-driven organisations, leveraging Sefa's status as a participating lender in the scheme," Ebeling ...

First State Super-backed Victorian fund makes first investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... Stewart, First State Super chief executive. "The numerous growth opportunities available to the business through this capital injection is expected to deliver a strong return on investment for our members." The aim of the initiative is to "help drive ...

J.P. Morgan Asset Management launches ESG integration policy statement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... behalf of clients," JPMAM said. The five main priorities will be governance, strategy alignment for the long term, human capital management, stakeholder engagement and climate risk. The Sustainable Investing team collaborated with a working group of ...

KPMG outlines focus on gender diversity in ASX201-300 company boards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
In order to increase gender diversity on ASX201-300 company boards, existing board members should look beyond traditional pools of candidates and focus on building the pipeline in executive and upper management, according to research from KPMG. Sarah ...

Australian Unity launches green bond fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... the real objective of both ourselves and CEFC and Crestone is to signal that there is an increased readiness of green capital waiting for issuers and we will definitely be active in advocating to issuers that they continue to service this market." While ...

Data enhances case for ESG as separate, interrelated factor to quality

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... the company, which often leads to you companies that don't have a lot of heavy assets because those require a lot of capital," said Ian Carmichael, portfolio manager and partner, Fairlight Asset Management. "They're very asset heavy, so it's ...