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Using the SDGs to develop sustainable investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a framework of targets that investors can use to implement sustainable investment outcomes. There is "deep momentum" to making investments towards companies and assets that support the ...

A burning issue: decarbonising the global steel industry

ANNA CHONG, ANDY JONES  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
Steel is essential in today's world, and it will be just as essential tomorrow - much of the technology to create a zero-carbon future, from wind turbines to mass transportation, will use steel in its construction. Yet steel production itself is ...

Assessing big tech's ESG risks and opportunities: Aviva Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
Tech companies such as Alphabet, Facebook and Microsoft have soared over the past 12 months and the IT sector is a large component of many ESG funds, but Aviva Investors cautions that there are ESG risks to businesses' practices that must be scrutinised. ...

Setting ESG targets a "first mover advantage" for companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
Setting ambitious ESG targets can provide companies with a "first mover advantage" in terms of access to new forms of capital and investment. Adam Carrel, partner in the EY Climate Change and Sustainability Services team, and Emily Whelan, ESG advisory ...

Climate friendly super choice could halve emissions: Australian Ethical

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
Australian Ethical and independent MP Zali Steggall issued a call to super fund members to look upon their super fund choice as a tool to address climate change. The ethical super fund issued a set of calculations that they said show that if Australians ...

Institutional Shareholder Services to acquire Rainmaker Information

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
Rainmaker Information (Rainmaker), publisher of FS Sustainability, has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), a leading provider corporate governance and responsible investment solutions, market intelligence ...

Investing in health and disease prevention is the best cure

MASJA ZANDBERGEN  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
COVID-19 might have put the spotlight on health, but our investment and active ownership teams have had a focus on health, healthcare and healthy food for some years already. We take the good aspects of it, such as the excellent investment opportunities ...

Extreme weather, human rights intensifying ESG focus: Janus Henderson

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
The impacts of environmental and social crises such as extreme weather events and human rights in the supply chain are intensifying the engagement on ESG topics with companies, according to Janus Henderson. Pointing to current weather crises such as ...

DON Smallgoods site to house bioenergy plant development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
A bioenergy facility is being developed on the grounds of the DON Smallgoods factory site in regional Victoria. DON Smallgoods has signalled its strong support for the bioenergy from waste facility, signing an agreement covering energy off-take, waste ...

Advisers seek education, clarification on ESG investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
Advisers identify confidence in their knowledge of the ESG sector as a challenge and seek better education as a key tool, according to new research from Investment Trends. Investment Trends recently surveyed 300 advisers on ESG investing and found that ...