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Low carbon APAC ETF lists on SGX

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2022  |  NEWS
A low carbon ETF focusing on developed and emerging markets in Asia Pacific has listed on the SGX. The CSOP CGS-CIMB FTSE Asia Pacific Low Carbon Index ETF launched with assets under management of S$150 million at launch. With this launch, the total ...

Podcast: Managing climate and sustainability megatrends with Terence Jeyaretnam

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2022  |  NEWS
In this week's episode of The Greener Way, we speak with Terence Jeyaretnam, EY's APAC leader and partner for climate change and sustainability. Jeyaretnam explains how a career that started as an environmental engineer led him to develop his expertise ...

Integrating ESG central to C-Suite considerations: Mazars

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2022  |  NEWS
... which surveyed 1,000 executives from 39 countries, including around 200 executives from 10 countries in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region Nearly two thirds of APAC leaders - 63% - report their focus on ESG increasing because of COVID-19 and 67% of APAC ...

BlackRock in $1bn capital commitment to battery storage

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... Australian investment, but we will be rolling out [battery storage developments] assets out across Asia Pacific," said BlackRock APAC co-head of climate infrastructure Charlie Reid. "In Australia, we have an EV charging asset, but we've been missing ...

Varying levels of progress on modern slavery: IAST APAC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
APAC-based companies are at various stages of tackling modern slavery, from those coming to grips with the issue to those who are making progress in finding, fixing and preventing modern slavery in their operations and supply chains. Investors Against ...

Schroders' sustainable multi-asset fund receives RIAA certification

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2022  |  NEWS
... and sustainability functions in the Asia Pacific region. Last year, Schroders appointed a head of sustainability strategy, APAC and a head of ESG integration, Asia Pacific as part of building a four-person APAC sustainability team.

Mercer appoints APAC sustainable investment leader

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
Mercer has promoted Rebecca Mather to the role of sustainable investment leader, Pacific. Mather first joined Mercer in 2001 as an investment consultant, and transitioned to the firm's SI business in 2007. In her new role as sustainable investment leader ...

Emerging markets improving on ESG: Bank of America

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
... time, investors are talking about environmental issues rather than social or governance issues," said Girish Nair, co-head of APAC ESG research and director, global and Asia Pacific quantitative strategy. "Environmental issues always come up at the top. ...

ANZ creates head of environmental markets role

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
... reporting to head of trading and markets, Asia Anshul Sidher. Smith joins ANZ from Citibank where he was head of commodities APAC. Before that, he held leadership roles including global head of commodity structuring for Commonwealth Bank of Australia ...

Moving to cloud brings financial and sustainability dividend: Deloitte

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2022  |  NEWS
... technologies are "five times more energy efficient than the on-premises data centres of companies and public sector organisations in APAC, on average" and that annually, 4.5Mt CO2 emissions would be avoided if all businesses using on-premises servers ...