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ISS ESG launches Solactive ISS ESG Prime Index Series

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2019  |  NEWS
ISS ESG has launched the Solactive ISS ESG Prime Index Series, which identifies companies with top environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance based on ISS ESG ratings. ISS ESG is the responsible investment arm of Institutional Shareholder ...

G7 Ministers statement supports growth of the impact investing market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2019  |  NEWS
G7 ministers responsible for development cooperation have released a statement supporting the growth of the impact investing market as a "meaningful and efficient financing approach" to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In the statement ...

Christian Super acquires stake in responsAbility Investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
Christian Super has acquired a "significant minority shareholding" in international asset manager responsAbility Investments. responsAbility is a leading impact asset manager with a focus on SDG-aligned investments in emerging economies. The company ...

CEFC, Ironstone Capital create Warada Capital, specialist joint venture

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
... projects, energy storage, electricity network enhancements and the use of distributed energy technologies across the built environment," said Alistair Craib, Warada CEO. "We're also targeting clean energy related investments in the natural resources ...

Low Carbon Readiness Index measures motivation to reduce carbon

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
... Living (CRCLCL), a national research and innovation hub that "seeks to enable a globally competitive low carbon built environment sector and is supported by the Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) programme" has published the LCRI, which is a "litmus ...

NSW government to issue a second Sustainability & Social Bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
The NSW Government announced that it will issue a Sustainability & Social Bond later this year. NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet New South Wales became the first state to establish the Sustainability Bond Programme in 2018 and successfully raised $1.8 ...

AllianceBernstein launches Australian low-carbon equities strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
AlianceBernstein has launched an Australian low-carbon strategy that has attracted investment from the Myer Foundation and the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC). Roy Maslen, AllianceBernstein chief investment officer�Australian equities ...

Pengana WHEB Sustainable Investing Impact Report identifies positives

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
... on its own terms, rather than relating what the money is doing to generate better outcomes for the economy or the environment." Pengana Capital Group Limited has a strategic agreement with WHEB Asset Management (WHEB) to manage the Pengana WHEB Sustainable ...

CEFC takes $51m stake in Victoria's Kiamal Solar Farm

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) has made its third equity investment in a large-scale renewable energy development, taking a $51 million stake in Victoria's 200MW (AC) Kiamal Solar Farm. Ian Learmonth, CEO, Clean Energy Finance Corporation ...

Insight Investment applies traffic light analysis to green, impact bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
Global asset manager Insight Investment has applied a traffic light score to impact bonds, and found that "many of the instruments coming to market fall short of minimum standards for sustainability." Josh Kendall, senior ESG analyst, Insight Investment ...