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Aus funds hit by outflows, global gains for passive ESG

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... funds were hit hard by outflows in the June quarter, but some strategies and fund managers are thriving. Australia and New Zealand sustainable funds suffered $1.2 billion in outflows (US$800 million) in the three months to June, compared with what was ...

First Environmental Futures trade on ASX

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... Environmental Futures contracts, pinned as a major step in the development of local carbon markets. Australia and New Zealand's first carbon futures contracts will improve access to carbon markets to allow market participants to price and hedge emissions ...

PEP rides ESG tailwinds

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... diversified global private equity portfolio to be made available to wholesale and institutional investors in Australia and New Zealand. PEP Gateway is a Portfolio Investment Entity (PIE) first launched in Australia in 2019. The drawcard is that it makes ...

RIAA warns against carbon capture

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... Australasia (RIAA) is a group of investors representing US$29 trillion in assets under management across Australia and New Zealand. Head of policy and advocacy Nayanisha Samarakoon said companies and investors need science-based action on environmental ...

Morningstar boosts ESG focus with new hire

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... the newly created role, she will focus on building a greater market presence for Sustainalytics across Australia and New Zealand. Cameron has worked for Thomson Reuters and Refinitiv and headed up the sustainable finance and investment sales efforts ...

Gender gap to close in 134 years: World Economic Forum

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... incremental progress, significant disparities remained. The top 10 nations for gender parity were: Iceland Finland Norway New Zealand Sweden Nicaragua Germany Namibia Ireland Spain Eastern Asia and Pacific ranked fourth for gender equality with a score ...

Cromwell restructures lending facility

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... transactions are rare in the sustainable finance market", Societe Generale head of sustainable finance for Australia and New Zealand Tessa Dann said. Cromwell's asset portfolio already met the standards for a green loan, CBA general manager major client ...

ERM inks deal with Energetics

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... advantage in the APAC region for Energetics and ERM, which will cumulatively employ more than 150 staff in Australia and New Zealand. At the conclusion of the transaction general manager Andrew Tipping, general manager strategy Bahador Tari, general ...

ESG fund performance leans on growth

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... positive impact on society" with US$1.3 billion AUM. Fidante has been chosen as the distribution partner in Australia and New Zealand. The strategy is being made available to Australian investors via segregated mandates or via a Dublin domiciled UCITS ...

Make sustainability sexy

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... is taking frameworks that make sense, and making them regulation," Rooney said. "We've seen that happening in New Zealand, we see that happening in Australia. "What I would say to business leaders is that these frameworks make sense... Government ...