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Australian business face European carbon levy for exports

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
Australian businesses risk having to pay an expensive levy to export goods to the European Union based on the intensity of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions used in making and shipping products. The European Parliament's environment committee recently ...

BetaShares to launch climate change innovation ETF

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... water and waste improvements, decarbonisation-enabling solutions, and sustainable products. "The potential catastrophic impact of climate change and other environmental threats cannot be overstated," said Alex Vynokur, BetaShares CEO. "However, these ...

ESG part of financial sustainability of infrastructure: ClearBridge

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... sustainability and perform sensitivity analysis, said Shane Hurst, portfolio manager. "Clearly, environmental factors have an impact on cashflows," Hurst said. "On the positive side, we look at the growth in renewables. On the negative side, environmental ...

Opinion: 2021 Reboot: three ways to innovate for impact

WARWICK PEEL, GORDON NOBLE  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... technology and innovation need to be the responsibility of a company board. Three ways we can innovate towards a higher impact reboot for our economy is to harness one of Australia's winning traits: creativity. Australia needs to leverage its greatest ...

Healthcare sector offers investment opportunity: American Century

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... sector corporate boats, notes American Century Investments. American Century Investments' American Century Health Care Impact Equity fund, managed by Michael Li, seeks quality stocks by incorporating acceleration, relative strength, and valuation ...

Green economy a multi-trillion dollar opportunity: FTSE Russell

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... identifying 6% of green revenue exposure in the global equity market, so if you start tilting on that basis, you can get a bigger impact," he said. "That's why we have a family of indices that use green revenue, and you see a difference there because ...

Pendal to launch sustainable water, waste strategy, hire two

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... chief executive officer of Pendal Group. "Regnan's focus is on delivering innovative and specialist sustainable and impact investment solutions, drawing on over 20 years of experience at the frontier of responsible investment. Pendal's hiring ...

Aware expands affordable housing portfolio

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... estate agency Echo. Evolve is a specialist in the social housing space, Webb told FS Sustainability the fund will apply its impact measurement framework to the affordable housing developments. "We do measure the impact of this portfolio, and we've started ...

Investors back climate bill

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
A range of investors have backed independent MP Zali Steggall draft climate change law in testimony to a parliamentary inquiry. A broad swathe of businesses, conservationist, scientist, health professionals and investors have broadly backed the proposed ...

Divestment should be tool of last resort on climate: ACCR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... Divestment can serve as a signal to other companies and investors, and ACCR says that divestment decisions have not had "as much impact as they could have had, had they been transparent about the conditions which would result in an escalation to divestment ...