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Taskforce recommends government support to build social impact investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... and a support team within the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. The impact investing sector is small in Australia - managed impact investments grew from around $1.2 billion in mid 2015 to $5.8 billion at the end of 2017. But the vast majority ...

Integrating ESG considerations in securities lending programs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... sometimes be impacted indirectly by changes to these core investment strategies. On the securities side for example, in Australia there has been a large focus on active proxy voting by Australian funds which has impacted securities lending as we are ...

Frasers Property Australia establishes Sustainable Finance Framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
Frasers Property Australia has established its first Sustainable Finance Framework, defining an entire portfolio of sustainable assets and designed to support sustainability-linked bonds and loans. Anthony Boyd, chief financial officer, Frasers Property ...

Comment: hindsight is 2020

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... superannuation research, Rainmaker Information Back in the 90s a hot topic was the hole in the ozone layer. As the hole was above Australia, we suffered due to the actions of other nations. The ongoing effects is that Australians are more likely to get ...

Green bond issuance could hit close to US$300 billion: Insight Investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... relatively level in 2019 - last year's issuance was $4.5 billion versus $4.3 billion in 2018, Insight Investment said. "Australia saw pretty much the same green bond issuance, whereas most of the other markets all experienced a significant increase in ...

Small, mid-caps list governance, social as top ESG concerns: Perennial

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
Australian small and mid-cap listed companies listed governance, diversity, safety and equality as their top three material environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues, as well as areas of future improvement, according to a survey conducted by ...

BetaShares ethical ETFs surpass $1 billion funds under management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... eligibility screens. The ETF is based on a basket of 100 large global stocks from developed market countries (excluding Australia) that are climate change leaders. FAIR was launched in November 2017, and combines a positive climate leadership screen ...

Climate change, human rights risks intertwined: GCNA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... the communities in which they operate, and is also intertwined with human rights, according to Global Compact Network Australia (GCNA). Kylie Porter, GCNA executive director GCNA, the local network of the United Nations Global Compact, has published ...

Analysis: climate change, Australia and the fierce urgency of now

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
As bushfires continue to burn across the southeast of Australia, the push is on to implement effective responses to minimise risk and optimise opportunities stemming from climate change across the economy. Business, finance and civil society are seeking ...

Human rights, ethical sourcing driving ESG considerations in Asia: Ausbil

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... recent crackdown on waste recycling exports by Malaysia, where 3,000 tonnes of non-recyclable plastic was returned to Australia; the Philippines, in returning 69 containers of mislabelled waste to Canada; and in Indonesia, where they found containers ...