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Victorian social housing commitment potential opportunity for impact investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
The Victorian state government has committed $5.3 billion to build social and community housing over the next four years, a move that could catalyse impact investment in social and affordable housing. Earlier this week, Premier Daniel Andrews announced ...

State of the climate report confirms need for climate-aware investing: Future Super

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... five years to 2020, according to Rainmaker Information research. That puts it in fourth place for ESG options across all asset classes. "The increasing urgency around climate change, the increasing visibility of climate change in people's lives has resulted ...

DWS Group Appoints ESG Advisory Board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... 30 September 2020 and operates in Germany, Europe, the Americas and Asia. "We want to take a leading role in ESG in the asset management industry and are already making ESG the core of everything we do," said Asoka Wohrmann, CEO of DWS. "It is thrilling ...

Mercer launches analytics, advisory tool for climate transition

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... economy." ACT allows investors to examine climate risk and currently covers listed assets and provide guidance for other asset classes for investors to complete a total portfolio baseline for annual monitoring purposes. "It is also a bottom up, and includes ...

Investors urge companies to broaden view of modern slavery risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... IFM Investors, Schroders, Aberdeen Standard Investments, ACSI, Perennial Value Management, Maple-Brown Abbott, Platypus Asset Management, American Century Investments, Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co (GMO), Ausbil Investment Management Limited, Fidelity ...

Investing in the low-carbon transition: Ninety One

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... mainly solar and wind which brings attractive aspects beyond just environmental, Cooper noted. "I think our view is that asset owners and retail investors need to look at the sector not only because they want to be part of allocating capital positively ...

Real asset investments as vehicle for return, positive impact

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... positive social and/or environmental impacts means investors gain more than a source of return that is non-correlated to other asset classes. During a recent webinar sponsored by Channel Capital, Matthew Tominc, CIO of Conscious Capital and Tim Short ...

Climate Bond Standard launches shipping criteria for bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... credibility to green bonds by assessing whether shipping assets are climate-aligned based on both the emissions intensity of the asset over its lifetime and the cargo it carries," said Sophie Parker, principal consultant, UMAS International. "By requiring ...

Understanding Impact Investment

MATTHEW TOMINC  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... little regard for the supply chain of its solar panels, which may inadvertently support poor labour practices. 2. Would this asset have been financed anyway? If an impact investor expects market rate returns, would other 'non-impact' investors have funded ...

Considering potential ESG implications of the US election

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
As US states continue to count the votes in a historic election impacted by the COVID-19's pandemic risks and political volatility, financial market participants responded to the near term uncertainty and attempted to forecast potential outcomes of ...