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Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures releases final report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
... its final recommendations for a framework for disclosure of climate-related financial risks. Mardi McBrien, managind director, CDSB The Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures is led by Michael Bloomberg. The TCFD's draft recommendations ...

Climate Bonds Initiative analyses disclosure of use of proceeds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
... "Impact reporting has been a focus of our work on Green Bonds at BlackRock for several years," said Ashley Schulten, director and head of Climate Solutions, Fixed Income at BlackRock. "In 2014, when we met with issuers of green bonds and pressed for ...

Nuveen launches two new ESG exchange traded funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
... funds (ETFs) that track indices employing environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria. Amy O'Brien, managing director and head of Responsible Investment at TIAA Investments The NuShares ESG International Developed Markets Equity ETF (NUDM) and ...

Social Ventures Australia launches $7 million Resolve Social Benefit Bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
... million in capital to fund a social benefit bond to fund a program addressing mental health services. Elyse Sainty, SVA director impact investing The Resolve Social Benefit Bond (Resolve SBB) will fund the Resolve Program, "a community-based mental health ...

PRI, Willis Towers Watson partner on megatrends and impact on financial system

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
... alter the financial system and investment industry in which the PRI and its signatories operate," said Nathan Fabian, director of policy and research at the PRI. "By monitoring megatrends and capturing our signatories' reaction to them on a systematic ...

Will Australia adopt the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures recommendations?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
The G20 Financial Stability Board's Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) is preparing its final recommendations, which will be presented to the G20 Leaders' Summit in July. As the TCFD considers the final draft of the TCFD guidelines ...

Acorns launches ethical investment portfolio option Emerald Portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
... Micro-investing app Acorns has launched a new ethical investment portfolio option. George Lucas, Acorns Australia CEO and managing director Acorns Australia customers can now select the Emerald Portfolio investment to the app, which is designed to meet ...

Investors decry decision by United States president to withdraw from Paris Agreement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
... pathway forward and shared goals for limiting global warming to less than two degrees Celsius." Chris Newton, executive director, Responsible Investment at IFM Investors, reiterated the fund manager's belief in the need to consider the impacts of climate ...

CEFC publishes report on best practice initiatives for property sector

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
... accelerate the market transformation needed to deliver high performance, low carbon buildings," said Tony Arnel, global director of Sustainability at NDY. "It's also important to recognise that buildings designed now, for completion in two or three years ...

Artisan raises $26 million for the Clean Energy Seed Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2017  |  NEWS
... and are proud to support the growing cleantech industry as our 'old-economy' rapidly evolves". Simon Sheikh, managing director of Future Super, also noted the alignment between the investment and the superannuation fund's members. "Future Super is committed ...