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Bank, state government become first buyers of Reef Credits

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
The Australian arm of a global bank and a state government have become the first purchasers of Reef Credits - tradeable units measuring improvements to water quality flowing onto the Great Barrier Reef. HSBC Australia and the Queensland government have ...

First Sentier publishes Modern Slavery Statement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... of Australia will have the challenge of finding information in markets where disclosure is not mandated. "Obviously, our global equities teams and our APAC focused teams are going to continue to have that challenge year on year as we raise those issues ...

Social issues and climate dominate engagement: SSGA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... issues are at the top of companies' agendas, driven by the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to State Street Global Advisors. SSGA has detailed the issues of engagement and its voting during the 2020 season through October 2020, noting that ...

Positive outlook for impact future: Conscious Investment Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... impact fund has approximately $45 million in assets under management, with an allocation to a diversified portfolio of global impact investments, targeting a financial return of at least 7% pa over the medium term after fees, before tax, while having ...

The 2020 US election: an infrastructure perspective

TIM HUMPHREYS  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... pricing the possibility of a Biden victory. When Biden was VP under Obama, during the challenges and recovery from the Global Financial Crisis, he gained directly relevant experience to where we are now with the current pandemic recession. Considering ...

ESG in fixed income more than green bonds: Daintree

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... report says that whilst money is pouring in to renewable energy projects and transition projects, approximately 40% of global energy will be based on renewable energy by 2050, which Dunn says means that by 2050 more electricity will still be generated ...

Vanguard expands Ethically Conscious product range

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... Reedman, head of product at Vanguard Australia. "The complement to the products we launched today - the Ethically Conscious global equity and global bond funds, have been in the market for about 2 years now." Vanguard Australia manages $3.5 billion across ...

Retail sustainable investments grow by 21%: Morningstar

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
Retail investment in sustainable financial products rose to $19.9 billion by the end of June 2020, a 21% increase on the previous year, according to research from Morningstar. Morningstar recently released a report, Sustainable Investing Landscape for ...

Fund manager creates, hires for ESG role

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... designed to support the fund manager's efforts to more deeply integrate ESG-related matters across its domestic and global equities funds, including the Alphinity Sustainable Share Fund. Cairns comes to Alphinity from Transurban, where she was senior ...

Super fund ESG option tops charts with investment returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... outperforming other fund's ESG options and even outperforming other ESG options within the same super fund. UniSuper's Global Environmental Opportunities fund option has $1.5 billion in assets under management, as of 31 August. According to UniSuper's ...