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Asset managers fast track portfolio targets

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... or UN PRI), disclosure system CDP, and sustainable finance advocate Ceres. Ceres CEO and president Mindy Lubber said the data represents meaningful progress in addressing climate risks and opportunities. In Europe, NZAM is supported by the €51 trillion ...

ISS ESG to plug emissions data shortfall for banks, insurers

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
Climate data provider ISS ESG removes one of the biggest hurdles for banks and insurers looking to comply to imminent emissions disclosure laws. This week ISS ESG, the sustainable investment arm of ISS STOXX, announced a string of upgrades to its Climate ...

UniSuper's environmental option returns -16%

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... decades, so I question whether the world is actually riskier now," he said. In his experience, and as demonstrated by historic data, markets tend to shrug geopolitical events off, he added. "Markets tend to bounce back pretty quickly... We do not take ...

Aus funds hit by outflows, global gains for passive ESG

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
Latest fund data show ESG funds were hit hard by outflows in the June quarter, but some strategies and fund managers are thriving. Australia and New Zealand sustainable funds suffered $1.2 billion in outflows (US$800 million) in the three months to ...

Glass ceiling persists despite record women chairs

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... women chairs, and 25 on the ASX 200. Researchers from the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) noted that the data was a considerable increase on the AICD's figures from the start of the year, when there were 34 women chairs on the ASX 300 ...

Responsible investing pro moves company-side

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... became well known in the field. At First Sentier, White was part of a centralised responsible investment team providing ESG data, responsible investing and stewardship reporting, internal responsible investment education, and collaborative stewardship ...

Prime role for AI in impact decisions

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... the next evolution of investment practice," founder Andrew Huang told FS Sustainability. Huang said that as an "emergent data- and logic-driven investment discipline", targeted environmental impact requires a "systems-based" understanding of social and ...

TelstraSuper pumps more into renewables

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... goal. The Quinbrook fund's investment portfolio consists of utility scale solar farms and battery projects, sustainable data centres and Quinbrook's own supernode battery project and sustainable data centre campus, which it launched in 2022 ...

Instos continue to fund fossil fuel expansion

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... alongside 12 partners including Fair Finance International, Climate Safe Pensions, Greenpeace, and Rainforest Action Network. The data comes from institutional investors' holdings of companies on Urgewald's Global Coal Exit List (GCEL) and Global Oil ...

Tech giant hits environment target

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... operational energy supply has achieved a 100% renewable energy "match", the e-retail powerhouse announced, including in its "data centres, corporate buildings, and fulfilment centres". Its goal was to reach this target by 2030. Its renewable energy methodology ...