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Podcast: Banking on the climate transition

THE GREENER WAY  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
... or their financed emissions. U Ethical stewardship manager and friend of the podcast Rachel Alembakis joins Financial Standard managing editor Jamie Williamson to discuss why the fund manager is so committed to collaborating with Australia's big banks ...

Index investors keen on proxy voting: Vanguard

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
A new survey from Vanguard reveals that investors in passive strategies increasingly want to partake in proxy voting. Of the total 1347 participants aged 18 and over who took part in the survey, 83% said it is important that asset managers consider ...

Super moves: Cbus, ART

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
... and short trading ideas in the financial, property, consumer and gaming sectors. Early in her career, Fang worked at Standard Chartered Bank where she evaluated and rated long-only equity funds in emerging markets, BRIC and Latin America and MFS Inve ...

ISSB looks to ease Scope 3 disclosure requirements

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
... associated with derivatives and some financial activities; relief from the use of the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS), in some circumstances, in disclosing disaggregated financed emissions information;clarification on the jurisdictional ...

TWC bolsters investment team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2025  |  NEWS
TWC Investment Management, a founder-owned and led boutique, has added a senior quant to its team. Diana Olteanu-Veerman has joined the firm led by former executives from PGIM, Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse. The firm, led by former executives from ...

Future Super, Verve to overhaul investments

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2025  |  NEWS
... investment options and offering access to financial coaching," Future Group chief executive Simon Sheikh told Financial Standard. "Members will continue to benefit from investments that match their values with the Future Super and Verve Super products ...

New landscapes, natural capital strategy launches

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2025  |  NEWS
Institutional investors can now access a dedicated landscapes and natural capital investment strategy, focused on agricultural assets in Australia and New Zealand. New Agriculture, part of New Forests, has launched the new offering, which will invest ...

China issues inaugural sovereign green bonds

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2025  |  NEWS
... China; Bank of Communications, Barclays; China International Capital Corporation; Crédit Agricole CIB; HSBC; ICBC; and Standard Chartered Bank. Crédit Agricole CIB and Bank of China acted as green structuring advisers. The green bonds are issued under ...

ISS ESG introduces new Sustainability Bond Rating

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2025  |  NEWS
ISS ESG launched a new Sustainability Bond Rating to give investors a sustainability impact and risk assessment at the issuance level of ESG or sustainability-linked bonds. It can be applied across bonds issued by both corporate and sovereign entities ...

Investors progress on climate, but barriers emerge

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2025  |  NEWS
A growing number of local investors are making progress on climate despite the anti-ESG sentiment simmering offshore. A fresh report from the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) found 65 of Australia's super funds, fund managers, and retail ...