Search Results

Showing 1401 - 1410 of 3687 results for "Australia"

HESTA's former head of impact launches consultancy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
... they're not constrained like institutional investors are with a straight fiduciary obligation," she said. "I don't think Australia has seen enough impact investment innovation." She sees an opportunity to work with investors like private offices. "There ...

Baker McKenzie hires special counsel from industry super fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
Baker McKenzie has hired the former head of legal advisory from an industry super fund to bolster its service - including ESG advisory - to super funds. Thalia Dardamanis joins Baker McKenzie as special counsel. She comes to the law firm from UniSuper ...

Australian Ethical launches high conviction ETF

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 1 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
... The companies meet the ethical criteria based on Australian Ethical's rigorous Ethical Charter. AEAE listed on CBoe Australia (formerly Chi-X), and is based on the High Conviction Unit Trust, launched in October 2021. AEAE seeks exposure to "forward-looking ...

Solving renewable energy challenges with technology investment: Quinbrook

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 27 JAN 2022  |  NEWS
... on weather conditions and other factors, is becoming necessary. "Regulators are shortening the trading intervals - in Australia, we've recently gone from a 30-minute trading interval to determine dispatch and power price to a five-minute interval," Scaysbrook ...

Australian execs say climate change already impacting: Deloitte

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 27 JAN 2022  |  NEWS
... impact of climate change, cost of mitigation, societal pressures and resource scarcity as areas of impact. "This puts Australia in the top ten of countries where business is concerned about climate change" said Deloitte Access Economics lead partner ...

YFYS, tracking error a challenge to ESG adoption: Parametric

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 27 JAN 2022  |  NEWS
... expect, in those two scenarios, you're not going to get as many reductions - half to emissions, half to the SDGs. "For Australia, we looked at the tilting scenario, and we attributed half of the tracking error to emissions and half to the SDGs. We got ...

ESG adds performance boost to equity funds: Rainmaker Information

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 27 JAN 2022  |  NEWS
Applying ESG techniques to equity strategies can enhance performance, but the performance premium differs between domestic Australian versus international equities, according to research from Rainmaker Information. In the latest Wholesale Advantage ...

Conscious Investment Management expands investment team

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 27 JAN 2022  |  NEWS
... through active involvement in policy and advocacy for these areas. Tran comes to Conscious Investment from Summer Housing, Australia's largest SDA provider. She was chief operating officer and acting CEO, and focused on property acquisition, design and ...

Using data, reporting to fill in the steps to net zero 2050: Northern Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 25 JAN 2022  |  NEWS
... risk details for the portfolio level, according to Scott Bennett, head of quantitative research and client solutions, Australia and New Zealand at Northern Trust Asset Management. "Many of the institutional investors that we speak to have signed up to ...

Munro Partners, GSFM launch climate ETF

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 20 JAN 2022  |  NEWS
Munro Partners and GSFM have launched a climate change leaders active ETF. The Munro Climate Change Leaders Fund, with ASX ticker MCCL, invests primarily in a concentrated long only portfolio of companies focused on decarbonisation and climate change ...