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Sustainable finance heavyweight to chair National Reconstruction Fund board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... billion National Reconstruction Fund (NRF) board. The NRF will invest in manufacturing projects cross seven priority investment areas - renewables and low emissions technologies; medical science; transport; value-add in the agriculture, forestry and ...

Climate disclosure lawsuit against Commonwealth settled

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... confidential heads of agreement, subject to court approval. O'Donnell chose to bring court action in 2020 after making an investment of approximately $1000 in exchange traded Australian government bonds through the CommSec app earlier that year ...

Revenue recycling carbon tax would increase Australia's GDP

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... pollution reducing programs, and investing in research and development projects. The study proposes that money allotted to investment would rise from the second year as the carbon tax rate increases - amounting to $57 billion over 13 years. Following ...

Morgan Stanley reaches 70% of $1tn sustainable finance goal

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... of its US$1 trillion target for sustainable and low-carbon investments by the end of this decade. The multinational investment bank and financial services company has released its latest ESG report stating that US$700 billion has been designated for ...

Fidelity creates chief sustainability role, plus new chairs for IPCC and PRI

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... role. This comes as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) announce new chairs. Tan has received multiple promotions since he started at the firm in 2007 after leaving a corporate ...

Are indexes the next target for greenwashing investigations?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... tools and, where appropriate, consider enforcement action in line with the FCA's Approach to Enforcement." Zenith Investment Partners head of responsible investment and sustainability Dugald Higgins said fund managers "need to tread with care" when ...

Podcast: Solving the social housing crisis - Casey Taylor

THE GREENER WAY  |  THURSDAY, 3 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... this episode of The Greener Way, we're talking investing in affordable housing with Casey Taylor from Conscious Investment Management. By any conceivable measure, affordable housing is a crisis in Australia, with a variety of potential mechanisms ...

Investments at risk: Finance "out of step" with climate science

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 3 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... collapse, tropical coral reef die-off, northern permafrost abrupt thaw, and Barents Sea ice loss. Many pension funds use investment models that predict global warming of 2 to 4.3°C will have only a minimal impact on member portfolios, and that even ...

Finding opportunities in the energy transition: IML

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... allocate in ways that take into account complex and rapidly changing economic factors. That's the view of three investment professionals who are part of the of Natixis Investment Managers affiliate network - Mirova, Vaughan Nelson and Australia's ...

La Trobe Uni issues $175m green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... operating officer Mark Smith. "La Trobe University is already deeply committed to environmental sustainability, with an investment of $75 million to become carbon neutral and secure Climate Active certification as an institution by 2029," Smith said. ...