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Advisers seek education, clarification on ESG investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
... questions around have your objectives changed, you can add this as another question." Zenith Investment Partners head of real assets and listed strategies Dugald Higgins corroborated the view that there is strong inbound demand from clients for ESG investment ...

APAC investors ahead of North America on climate action: PGIM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
... a silver lining," he says. "They're recognising not just the most obvious risks around climate change, such as in real assets, where flooding can have a real impact on asset value, but also the opportunities around the transition to the green economy. ...

Investors seek renewable energy infrastructure: bfinance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... investments' that explicitly aim to deliver positive non-financial outcomes. bfinance data shows that 34% of investors in real assets (infrastructure and real estate) are involved in thematic investing, with a further 20% considering doing so. bfinance's ...

Real estate managers carry out decarbonisation strategies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... partnership, which aligns with our broader strategy at Aware Super," said Damien Webb, Aware Super head of income and real assets. "We are focused on delivering strong risk adjusted returns while also leaving a positive footprint in the environment and ...

Investors lag in integrating climate risk: PGIM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... transitioning to the new "low-carbon economy," to incorporating physical and transition climate risk in analyzing real assets using alternative sources of data. However, the research found that fewer than one in five invstors are using alternative data ...

ESG a total-portfolio subject: bfinance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... minority of investors in each asset class, but their popularity has risen dramatically in the last three years: 35% of real assets investors now do thematic ESG investing, up from 15% three years ago, with a further 20% "actively considering" doing so. ...

Aware expands affordable housing portfolio

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... workers, law enforcement and emergency-services workers, and childcare employees. Damien Webb, the head of income and real assets at Aware, told Financial Standard that the units will be offered at a 20% discount. During the pandemic, one area of concern ...

Integrating impact investing in listed equity portfolios

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... bonds ($17 billion), while the remaining $2.9 billion in impact investments held by Australian investors comprise real assets ($2.2 billion), private debt ($287 million), public equity ($195 million), private equity ($97 million), social impact bonds ...

Industry considers Australian sustainable finance taxonomy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... each time, you could categorise funds, and hopefully that would be more useful to clients." Dugald Higgins, head of real assets and listed strategies at Zenith Investment Partners, noted that the challenge was balancing out what is appropriate versus ...

Victorian social housing commitment potential opportunity for impact investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... Australasia (RIAA), the total impact investment universe in Australia stood at $19.9 billion, with $2.2 billion invested in real assets such as housing. Experts have told FS Sustainability that there are barriers to scaling up investment in social and ...