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AIIB, Aberdeen Standard Investments form strategic partnership

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2019  |  NEWS
... Integrating ESG standards into capital markets in Emerging Asia will be important to achieving long-term sustainable development goals. We look forward to partnering with Aberdeen Standard Investments to achieve our shared vision of sustainable capital ...

G7 Ministers statement supports growth of the impact investing market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2019  |  NEWS
... the impact investing market as a "meaningful and efficient financing approach" to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In the statement, ministers from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States also ...

NSW government to issue a second Sustainability & Social Bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
... International Capital Markets Association Sustainability Bond Guidelines and map to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Insight Investment applies traffic light analysis to green, impact bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
... additionality." Insight Investment noted that estimates suggest that achieving the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals will require US$5trn to US$7trn of total investment by 2030. Impact bonds are widely expected to be instrumental in reaching ...

Factor investing such as ESG strategies can be wise approach: AXA IM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
... through the lens of ESG investing and specifically the utility of anchoring strategies in the UN Sustainable Development Goals. "Where do we sit now," McDonald said. "It's a bit hard to pinpoint.... In our own modelling, we like to wait a quarter or ...

Impact Investment Partners on Indigenous Infrastructure Investment Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
... of social impact," Croker said. "We've developed that over many years now. They're aligned to UN Sustainable Development Goals and in Australia to the Closing the Gap targets, but even with those we've found it requires a lot of effort and interpretation ...

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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2019  |  NEWS
... of investors in the Asia Pacific region are aligning their ESG investment framework with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, according to a new BNP Paribas survey. Madhu Gayer, investment analytics and sustainability manager, BNP Paribas Securities ...

Australian Sustainable Finance Initiative sets ambitious investment agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
... Taskforce, as well as initiatives in Norway and Canada, while broadening the remit to include the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) O'Connor said. "We've lifted the ambition somewhat," he said. "That point of difference is on the social side of the ...

BNP Paribas Asset Management launches global sustainability strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
... in helping to achieve the sustainable future we need, as laid out by the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals," said Frederic Janbon, CEO of BNP Paribas Asset Management. "BNPP AM is proud to take on this challenge - we believe it is ...

Constructing an impact portfolio as stand-alone strategy: Nuveen

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
... this for longer, how do you make that more scalable and sustainable? Second is, we do tie in the [Sustainable Development Goals] SDGs, we have certainly articulated our impact themes in light of the SDGs, and each of our verticals to the SDGS, no poverty ...