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HESTA names Andrew Major chief risk and compliance officer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... business activities." Major is currently chair of the Australian Investment Council - the Australian peak body for private capital - and represents HESTA on several Fund Advisory Boards. He has also recently served as a director of the Climate Bonds ...

Calculating the shorter, longer-term cost of bushfire

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... the March quarter could cost 0.4%. However, these initial calculations do not take into consideration damage to natural capital - air, water, soil and other natural resources - and the impacts to public health will come take time to be calculated. Shane ...

Genex Power closes $192 million certified green debt funding package

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... certified as being green, banks are very keen to lend to us, and because of that desire we found that we had a lower cost of capital by being certified green." Genex Power appointed Westpac as the agent and security trustee for the senior facility. A ...

How the law can drive impact through investment: B Lab

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... forming the Social Impact Investing Taskforce. The Taskforce is responsible for developing a strategy to facilitate private capital investment in impact investing, among other things. The Government has the opportunity through the Taskforce to get on ...

Climate-related policies "inevitable", but likely to be disorderly: IPR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... noted that Australia is in an unusual position from an asset allocation perspective to react to these changes through capital recycling of real asset investments. "In future, real assets are going to be green," he said. "Australia is well placed from ...

ASFI identifies six critical challenges for sustainable finance roadmap

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... expectations 3. Frameworks, tools and standards 4. Decision-making and valuation 5. Unlocking sustainable finance and allocating capital to where it is needed 6. Policy, regulation and supervision (source: ASFI) "The two big standout areas are leadership ...

Integrating ESG essential to infrastructure portfolio: First Sentier Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... series fundraising is designed to ensure focused investment discipline, while delivering rapid deployment of investors' capital. "Increasingly, we are seeing opportunities for consolidation and growing businesses thru platform acquisitions," Mills noted. ...

QBE, Suncorp among global insurers exiting coal: Unfriend Coal

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... market have yet to take action. US insurers are beginning to shift, with coal exit policies announced by Chubb and AXIS Capital. AIG and Liberty Mutual are now among the biggest international carriers to still insure coal and are able able to take the ...

Sustainalytics hires Jodie Tapscott as head of Australasia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... wealth management group's responsible investment strategy. Before that, Tapscott was a senior portfolio manager at AMP Capital Investors, where she oversaw the investment governance of the firm's suite of investment and superannuation platforms. "Sustainable ...

LeapFrog Investments names Julia Gillard to leadership council

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
LeapFrong Investments has appointed Former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard to its global leadership council. Gillard was named along with Simon Israel, chairman of Singtel, and Jaime A. Zobel, Chairman and CEO of Ayala Corporation to the council ...