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Schroders names APAC sustainability heads

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
Schroders has appointed a head of sustainability strategy, APAC and a head of ESG integration, Asia Pacific as part of building a four-person APAC sustainability team. Mervyn Tang will join Schroders in late July as the new head of sustainability strategy ...

HSBC AM takes stake in women-owned ESG investment firm

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... go from the fourth quarter." RadiantESG will seek out both institutional clients and wealth managers in the US, Europe and APAC, potentially including Australia. The RadiantESG investment approach is to view companies through a variety of lenses including ...

A little more conversation and a lot more action

PIERRE LENDERS  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... moral objectives? According to the latest MSCI 2021 Global Institutional Investor survey, around 79% of investors in the APAC region increased their ESG investments while 57% said they expect to have "completely" or "to a large extent" incorporated ESG ...

ASX in running to develop Australian carbon exchange

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... well as environmental compliance regimes - that can be leveraged and made available to the CER." Australia is not the only APAC market developing a carbon exchange. The Singapore Exchange (SGX) is developing a carbon exchange and marketplace with an ...

J.P. Morgan AM acquires forestry firm

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... continues to grow, and we expect that to accelerate given the global low rate environment," said J.P. Morgan Asset Management APAC CEO Dan Watkins. "Long-term total returns from timberland tend to be low in volatility, limited in correlation to other ...

ASX company issues billion dollar sustainability linked bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... find out what investors want to see from sustainability linked bonds," said BNP Paribas head of sustainable capital markets APAC Chaoni Huang. "We looked at the ambition level and peer benchmarking both domestically and globally, to come to a conclusion ...

ESG ratings "just opinions": Dimensional Fund Advisors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... differences in the methodologies in ESG ratings "really healthy", a perspective that FTSE Russell head of sustainable investment, APAC Helena Fung reinforced. "What investors are broadly seeking to do in integrating ESG, as much as it is about reflecting ...

J.P. Morgan Asset Management augments APAC sustainability team

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
J.P. Morgan Asset Management has named Tomomi Shimada as lead APAC sustainable investing strategist. Shimada will be based in Hong Kong and will report to Jennifer Wu, global head of sustainable investing. She will lead region-wide commercial efforts ...

JANA hires first head of sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 24 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
... and previously worked in senior counsel and legal roles across the UK and Australia, including as regulatory counsel for APAC and EMEA at State Street Bank, and as an investigator in enforcement and financial crime division of the UK's Financial ...

CBRE hires APAC ESG research lead

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
CBRE has hired Sameer Chopra to head its Pacific research team and lead ESG research for the Asia Pacific region. Chopra will join CBRE in July. He is currently head of Australian research at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. "We continually strive to ...