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Sydney Airport issues $600m bond with sustainability linked tranche

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... competitively priced US Private Placement issuance with a focus on lengthening its debt tenor and facilitating direct Australian dollar investment," said Matthew Carr, MUFG's managing director and head of debt capital markets for Australia and New Zealand. ...

ASX200 boards above 30% women in aggregate, but six have none

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
Although 30% of ASX200 board seats in aggregate are held by women, research from the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) show that 100 companies have not reached the 30% target and six companies still have no women on their board. In December ...

Taskforce recommends government support to build social impact investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... term" approach to guide its involvement in the social impact investing market. Kylie Charlton, managing director of Australian Impact Investments The Social Impact Investing Taskforce has released its interim report examining the Commonwealth's role ...

Integrating ESG considerations in securities lending programs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... strategies. On the securities side for example, in Australia there has been a large focus on active proxy voting by Australian funds which has impacted securities lending as we are required to recall securities to facilitate our clients voting instructions. ...

Comment: hindsight is 2020

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... are more likely to get sunburn from UVB than those living in Europe, North America or most of Asia. According to the Australian government we have one of the highest rates of skin cancer in the world. At least two in three Australians will be diagnosed ...

Green bond issuance could hit close to US$300 billion: Insight Investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... Netherlands issued its inaugural green bond in 2019 and Germany said it intends to issue a green bond later in 2020. However, Australian issuance of green bonds stayed relatively level in 2019 - last year's issuance was $4.5 billion versus $4.3 billion ...

Small, mid-caps list governance, social as top ESG concerns: Perennial

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
Australian small and mid-cap listed companies listed governance, diversity, safety and equality as their top three material environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues, as well as areas of future improvement, according to a survey conducted by ...

BetaShares ethical ETFs surpass $1 billion funds under management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... past three months. BetaShares Ethical ETFs FUM BetaShares points to the coincidence of the spike of inflows into the Australian equities ETF FAIR and the international equities ETF ETHI with the onset and intensification of the Australian bushfire emergency. ...

Climate change, human rights risks intertwined: GCNA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... TCFD before they become compulsory." The TCFD guidelines are voluntary and not compulsory in Australia. However, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, the Reserve Bank of Australia, the ...

Analysis: climate change, Australia and the fierce urgency of now

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... likened the bushfire crisis to the global financial crisis. "What needs to change is not so much the appetite of the Australian people to be generous, kind, and eager to support right at this moment," Petersen said. "It's about embedding a transformational ...