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PE, VC vehicles to drive sustainable investment pipeline

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
... equity and pre-IPO companies that tackle sustainability-related issues. Artesian is a global alternative investment management firm specialising in public and private debt, venture capital and impact investment strategies. Clunies-Ross notes that "by ...

Investors identify positive impact through multiple finance strategies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
... at the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) conference. Matthew Tominc, CIO of Conscious Investment Management, notes that his fund's mission is to make market-rate financial investments which demonstrate "positive, additional and ...

Northern Trust AM names head of sustainable investing and stewardship

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
Northern Trust Asset Management has hired Julie Moret as global head of sustainable investing and stewardship, a newly created role. Moret will oversee the firm's sustainable investing and global engagement policies, foster research and product development ...

APAC investors ahead of North America on climate action: PGIM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
... 101 institutional investor throughout North America, Europe and Asia with greater than US$3 billion in assets under management and found that 90% believe climate change is an important issue for their organisation. Among Asia-Pacific investors, 54% actively ...

APRA to conduct climate vulnerability assessment on banks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
... approaches that we use to establish global scenarios, but also to improve the ADI's data collection and to inform risk management, and that's the quantitative aspect of the climate vulnerability assessment. APRA will be saying more about that over the ...

Trustees squeezed by competing climate risk pressures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
... with and get the information and be in active ownership," Edwards notes. In order to carry out the climate change risk management as outlined in CPG 229, Spirit Super and other funds need to outsource information gathering and recommendations to proxy ...

AICD presses case for stakeholder role in governance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2021  |  NEWS
... activists and community groups on matters such as climate change, human rights and workforce culture. The guide notes that management should lead day-to-day stakeholder engagement, but the board's role is to create a culture that puts stakeholders ...

Steep rise in demand for ESG wealth management products: EY

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2021  |  NEWS
... manager "falls short" in understanding their values. There is an overall growth in "for purpose" investing in wealth management clients, according to the 2021 EY Global Wealth Research Report. EY surveyed 2,500 wealth management clients in 21 markets ...

New CEO search underway for IGCC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2021  |  NEWS
... firm. Emma Herd joined IGCC in 2015 following fifteen years in sustainable finance in the banking sector, and the IGCC Management Committee has begun a recruitment process for a new CEO. She will join EY Australia as a partner in the Climate Change and ...

Calculating value of biodiversity: BNP Paribas Asset Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2021  |  NEWS
... global economy, with investors working to calculate risk and opportunity on investment portfolios. BNP Paribas Asset Management has named biodiversity as one of its key thematic priorities, and is undertaking a number of projects to pursue biodiversity ...