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Rising importance of sustainability in the commercial real estate industry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... three substantial findings for organisations that actively engage in sustainable practices. They were: 90% of 'cost of capital' studies show that sound ESG standards lower the cost of capital; 88% of the studies show that solid ESG practices result in ...

Examining the corporate governance implications of share buybacks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... buyback activity. "When companies decide what to do with their extra cash, they have two main options besides investing in capital improvements, R&D or M&A, and that's either dividends or repurchases," Marshall said. "One of the reasons for the decision ...

Climate Disclosure Standards Board issues TCFD aligned framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). The framework presents links to align reporting environmental information, natural capital and associated business impacts to the TCFDD recommendations and supporting recommended disclosures. CDSB said there ...

Protecting impact from Greenwash - Duncan Paterson

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... the part of the investor to support positive social or environmental outcomes Return expectations - the deployment of capital must be done with a view to receiving some kind of return - otherwise we are talking about a donation rather than an investment ...

New Forests given award for portfolio of carbon offset projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... traditional financial markets have failed to value forests as a carbon sink and reservoir. Our business aims to bring capital to this opportunity and to enhance the value of responsibly managed forests through carbon revenue and other conservation finance ...

Exploring the risks, impacts of future of work on investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... Pauline Vamos, CEO, Regnan A recent Morgan Stanley report notes four changes that will impact how companies manage human capital - automation, robotics and AI, business model disruption, and labour cost regulatory pressure, and demographic and societal ...

Financial Services industry has key role to play in financing the SDGs: EY

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... You Fund A Sustainable Tomorrow, " there is an estimated US$2.5t funding gap each year until 2030. Global financial and capital markets currently manage almost US$300t in financial assets every year." EY states that the financial services industry has ...

International Finance Corporation issues $300m Kangaroo social bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... February, ANZ priced and issued the â,¬750 million Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) bond in the European wholesale debt capital markets. According to ANZ, "the five year fixed rate bond was priced at a spread of 15 basis points over the swap rate ...

Green Bond Pledge launched to increase use of green bond finance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... "Organizations committing to the Green Bond Pledge will benefit from these opportunities and help the necessary acceleration of capital flows - before 2020 - to deliver a sustainable future for everyone." Signatories will be widely sought from cities ...

Evolution towards autonomous vehicles present infrastructure investment: AMP Capital

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... the short and medium term, there are opportunities for infrastructure investors during the transition, according to AMP Capital's Global Listed Infrastructure team. Andy Jones, AMP Capital Global Listed Infrastructure portfolio manager AMP Capital has ...