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Super funds file Modern Slavery Statements

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... being exposed to businesses and investments that may be caught up in modern slavery. "If super funds are ESG advocates, this core business, or it should be." Super fund Modern Slavery statements averaged 10 pages. Rainmaker deemed the most comprehensive ...

Fund manager issues first Reconciliation Action Plan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... topic, and the fact that we can bring in a lot of First Nations organisations and voices to the forum," he said. "This is the core of why investors have been activated to really build their knowledge in this sector, because of destruction of country. ...

Super fund invests in Australian Unity Green Bond Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... good support from Crestone Wealth Management through their client base- they've taken the approach to make green bonds a core part of their model portfolios across their appropriate set of clients." The Green Bond Fund has continued to source fresh ...

ESG ratings "just opinions": Dimensional Fund Advisors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... data providers for the underlying data that they then use for their internal analysis. "At a base level, let's take a core metric that we use - greenhouse gas intensity," Singh said. "Even there, disclosure and coverage isn't 100% - it's ...

Infrastructure manager joins Principles for Responsible Investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... utilities at Goldman Sachs JBWere and ex-CEO of the Australian Infrastructure Fund. The Fund is currently invested across 'core' and 'super core' infrastructure assets across four key sectors with the strongest performance outlooks - transport, renewables ...

$515 million sustainability loan anchors seaport refinance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
... part of a broader $666 million refinancing facility for Port of Newcastle funded by a consortium of lenders. NAB acted as a core lender in the refinancing and, in its role as Sustainable Finance Structuring Coordinator, assisted in the development of ...

Property fund inks multi-billion dollar sustainability linked loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
... diversified property portfolio. Industry Super Property Trust (ISPT) has completed the SLL transaction, covering all of the ISPT Core Fund's bank facilities, for a total of $2.8 billion. An SLL is a lending vehicle where interest rates are tied to ...

New CEO search underway for IGCC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2021  |  NEWS
... we've seen so many investors joining Climate Action 100+ is because it's very much a recognition that there is a core group of companies who are in almost everyone's portfolio that are responsible for the vast majority of carbon emissions ...

State Street launches ESG service for securities lending

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2021  |  NEWS
... Investments, Aviva, BlackRock, ISLA, KBC Asset Management, NN Investment Partners and PGGM. PSSL is organised around eight core principles - alignment, transparency, tax voting, collateral, short selling, stakeholder involvement, and innovation.

Westpac inks $350 million sustainability linked loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... issues of the business," said Michael Chen, Westpac's head of sustainable finance. "We wanted specific KPIs that reflected the core of what G8 do. Having done an assessment of their material strategic initiatives, we understood they are a socially oriented ...