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UN GCNA appoints Pru Bennett to board of directors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... bodies including Public Shareholder Group of Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission, the Monetary Authority of Singapore's Corporate Governance Advisory Committee, a council member of the Asian Corporate Governance Association, director of the ...

Singapore-based Vena Energy issues US$325 million green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
Singapore-based Vena Energy, an independent power producer and renewable energy company, has issued a US$325 million green bond. Proceeds of the green bond will be used to refinance existing corporate loans for the development, construction and operation ...

Frasers Property Australia establishes Sustainable Finance Framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... framework, Frasers said. "We've been able to use the existing financing relationships ANZ locally and Barclays and OCBC in Singapore to coordinate this," Boyd said. "The property business and the financing business is evolving at the same time, and the ...

Amundi reports increased demand for fixed income ETFs, ESG integration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... more appetite from Asian countries. Main appetite on the fixed income side is Southeast Asia - there is appetite in Singapore, in Thailand, and also appetite in N Asia with Korea and Taiwan having more and more questions. On the fixed income ETF side ...

Calculating the shorter, longer-term cost of bushfire

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... impacts of smoke haze on people's health can have a drag on productivity. Cacho cited a report that calculated that Singapore's economy incurred $1.83 billion in economic damage as a result of the 2015 smoke haze over Singapore that occurred from slash-and-burn ...

Sydney Stock Exchange announces new CEO, first listings, ESG focus

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... $200 million mark, Go said. "Our strategy co-optition - we don't want to come up against the ASX, Hong Kong Exchange or Singapore Exchange," Go said. "We are working in the space with growth companies, where maybe it's a little more difficult for the ...

Schroders acquires impacting investing firm BlueOrchard

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... private equity, and sustainable infrastructure and is an expert in innovative blended finance mandates. "BlueOrchard's Singapore office plays a key role in our effort to grow the company's presence in the APAC region," said Pierrick Balmain, head of ...

Fidelity International appoints Jenn-Hui Tan global head of stewardship

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2019  |  NEWS
... joined as senior legal counsel in 2007. He was previously a solicitor at Norton Rose Fulbright in London. Tan is based in Singapore and will be responsible for Fidelity's ESG teams based in the Europe and Asia. He will report to Paras Anand, head of ...

AIIB, Aberdeen Standard Investments form strategic partnership

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2019  |  NEWS
... economic value that comes from the asset class." The portfolio will be managed by ASI's Asian fixed income team based in Singapore, which has a long-term track record in emerging markets investing. The portfolio has a strong emphasis on ESG. All bonds ...

Majority of Asia-Pacific investors expect to integrate ESG: BNP Paribas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2019  |  NEWS
... management. Across Asia Pacific, 110 asset owners and managers were included from China, Hong Kong, Japan, India, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand.