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Evaluating impact of climate policy on company valuation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
Understanding how government climate policies will impact cash flows and company valuations is essential to establishing the winners and losers of any new environmental commitments, according to J.P. Morgan Asset Management. Quantifying the scale of ...

Singapore Stock Exchange to launch carbon exchange

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
... aim to launch by the end of 2021. SGX, in conjunction with DBS, Standard Chartered and Temasek, are developing Climate Impact X (CIX), aimed at providing entities with high quality carbon credits to address hard-to-abate emissions. CIX will offer platforms ...

Modern slavery, Indigenous heritage, climate change top agenda: Paradice IM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
... Investment Management. Paradice integrates ESG and active ownership into its investment process and across teams because of its impact on risk and return, said founder David Paradice. "The way you treat environment and resources reflects on company management ...

Net zero: How to separate truth from marketing

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
Net zero commitments are rapidly becoming the new normal among companies and investors, but it takes some digging to work out which commitments are backed by real plans and which are just talk. As reported by Financial Standard from the Conference of ...

Neuberger Berman closes $280m private equity impact fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
Neuberger Berman has announced the final close of a private equity impact fund that raised $280 million from investors, including Australian superannuation funds. The NB Private Equity Impact Fund invests in direct and fund investments that seek to ...

Unite the league: investors join climate coalition

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 17 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
... the initiative for Australia, take at least one new action a year to contribute towards it, and report on progress and impact. Climate League 2030 noted that a reduction in Australia's emissions by at least 230 million tonnes a year by 2030 from what ...

"Booming" demand for ESG specialists

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
... of $70,000 to $120,000 with one to five years' experience. A number of firms have announced hires in recent weeks. Impact investor Melior Investment Management has hired Carlos Castillo as a senior analyst. Castillo was most recently at Ellerston ...

Science-Based Targets an indicator of future climate action: Federated Hermes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
... are both thematic and benefit from diversification, and using companies that have set science-based targets, where the impact will be most salient, is an important way to build portfolios." "From a pure top-down, selection point of view, we can use where ...

Using quant approaches to implement climate change targets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
Using a systematic, objective and quantitative approach may help investors seeking to implement decarbonising targets into investment portfolios, according to Acadian Asset Management. Acadian, a quantitative equities manager, integrates environmental ...

First Sentier launches unit for sustainability research

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
... sustainable investment, report on market trends and best practice, and promote a greater understanding of how such issues can impact long-term investment performance," according to First Sentier. The Institute has picked microplastic pollution as its ...