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IFM Investors hires responsible investment associate director

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... his new role in late June. IFM Investors says that its responsible investment approach is aligned with the United Nations Global Compact and the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment, to which IFM has been a signatory since 2008. ...

J.P. Morgan AM acquires forestry firm

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
J.P. Morgan Asset Management has acquired a global forestry management and timberland investing company. J.P. Morgan will acquire Campbell Global by purchasing BrightSphere Investment Group's 75% ownership stake as well as the 25% owned by Campbell ...

ASX company signs $1.5bn sustainability linked loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... Cares" strategy sets meaningful targets that will take ambition to achieve, said Jonathan Drew, Head of ESG Solutions, Global Banking at HSBC "We sat down with the client to consider what are the right metrics, how to define them, how to gather the data ...

ASX company issues billion dollar sustainability linked bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
A leading ASX100 company is issuing Australia's first sustainability-linked bond (SLB). Wesfarmers' $1 billion issuance will see the interest rate of the bonds linked to progress against specific renewable energy and emissions performance targets. ...

ESG ratings "just opinions": Dimensional Fund Advisors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... opinions - not unlike the buy/hold/sell opinions that have been issued by sell-side analysts for decades." But ISS ESG global head of ESG thought leadership Duncan Paterson said that ESG research differs in several ways to sell side analysis, pointing ...

Climate change, diversity, inequality top engagement agenda: T. Rowe Price

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
Climate change, diversity, and systemic inequality topped the engagement list for T. Rowe Price, with the global fund manager pressing for improved disclosure from corporations and asset managers on ESG issues. T. Rowe Price has issued its third ESG ...

Why the move to clean energy won't be enough

ALISTAIR MILLS  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... that many would be forgiven for missing in what can only be described as a tumultuous year. Outside of the COVID pandemic, global weather patterns appear to have become more extreme. Australia has been at the forefront. Unrelenting bushfires tore through ...

New fossil fuel exploration acreage released

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... resources with geological storage of co-produced CO2 will help Australia develop its clean energy future and meet the growing global demand for low emission fuels," he said. Photo by Victor Garcia on Unsplash

APPEA conference kicks up controversy

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... its members continue to oppose genuine climate action which argued that the group's lobbying is inconsistent with limited global warming to two degrees. The report claims APPEA's support for net zero emissions by 2050 is only "notional" in nature and ...

Infrastructure manager joins Principles for Responsible Investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... investors, with over 575MW of renewable energy generation capacity under management. ATLAS Infrastructure is a specialist global listed infrastructure manager with exposure to high quality listed infrastructure companies across developed markets. "Responsible ...