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Demand for climate aware, ESG investment: State Street Global Advisors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
State Street Global Advisors sees strong demand for climate-aware and ESG themed investment products and solutions, even during tough market conditions. Nathalie Wallace, global head ESG investment strategy. State Street Global Advisors "It is a global ...

Insure Our Future calls for halt to insuring oil and gas projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... insuring new oil and gas expansion projects and phase out insurance for oil and gas companies in order to meet a 1.5C global climate target. Peter Bosshard, global coordinator, Unfriend Coal / Insure Our Future Campaign The Insure Our Future campaign ...

Maple-Brown Abbott Global Listed Infrastructure hires ESG analyst

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... Environmental & Human Rights Law LLM at the University of NSW and has completed a number of post-graduate industry courses on climate change risk, impact investing and sustainability including from the CFA Institute and the United Nations University. ...

Super funds lag on disclosing proxy voting record: ACCR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... increased from 2018-2019, according to the Australasian Centre on Corporate Reporting (ACCR). Dan Gocher, ACCR director of climate and environment ACCR has released Two Steps Forward, One Step Back, examining how Australia's largest super funds voted ...

Maple-Brown Abbott appoints Emma Pringle as head of ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... the role and responsibility of investment managers to fully assess the risks and opportunities of ESG factors, including climate change, when seeking to deliver long-term benefits for our investors. In addition to our firm wide ESG approach, each of ...

BetaShares ethical ETFs see nearly $300m in new inflows in 2020

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... The ETF is based on a basket of 100 large global stocks from developed market countries (excluding Australia) that are climate change leaders. FAIR was launched in November 2017, and combines a positive climate leadership screen, with a broad set of ...

Human capital management a signal of overall sustainability: Lazard

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... supports companies reporting via the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) guidelines and the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). "We support - SASB and TCFD, because we leverage their frameworks to come up with our ...

State Street Global Advisors launch Climate ESG International Equity Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
State Street Global Advisors has launched a climate-aware fund of international equities. Nathalie Wallace, global head ESG investment strategy. State Street Global Advisors The State Street Climate ESG International Equity Fund "seeks to achieve capital ...

Accounting bodies develop guidelines for disclosing to SDGs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... Goal Disclosure (SDGD) Recommendations are designed to align with and support the recommendations of the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), the International Framework and the GRI standards to enhance "identification of material ...

Majority of Australians want greater action on climate change: Glow

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... in Australia, New Zealand, the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada want their governments to do more to combat climate change, according to a poll conducted by research platform Glow. Glow recently released its report Climate Catalyst, based ...