Search Results

Showing 231 - 240 of 443 results for "debt"

IIG launches alternative fund-of funds impact strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... solar farms, impact private equity, venture capital for high-growth startups which meet the fund's impact thesis, impact debt, social impact bonds, environmental assets and regenerative farming. The fund has a pipeline of early investments, with ...

Cbus Super announces net zero portfolio emissions target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... the fund's entire portfolio. "We also built a lot of internal capability in terms of directly managing across equities, debt, infrastructure, and most of the strategies that we have developed, although they weren't targeted around a carbon or ...

AAIB, Amundi launch climate investment framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... The program will support the creation of several funds that will invest in green high yield corporate bonds, green private debt and green securitised debt. The EIB has made an initial commitment of EUR 60 million.

Do founder-led listed companies outperform on E, S and G metrics?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... definitely a more resilient model, and this is an anecdotal observation, but founder-led companies have less leverage, and debt than companies led by professional [non-founder] management, because they don't want to risk the long term business to ...

Microfinance provider Grameen Australia hires Adam Mooney

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... and welfare but often pushes people to seek out loans through fringe lenders at exorbitant rates, resulting in an unending debt cycle. Grameen's unique approach to developing social businesses with local group support and appropriate lending and savings ...

Majority of asset owners identify ESG importance: bfinance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... "happy with the results of actively managed strategies across the majority of asset classes," although 53% of emerging market debt investors, 48% of hedge fund investors and 64% of alternative risk premia investors are dissatisfied with the performance ...

ESG integration "crucial" to credit investments: Janus Henderson

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... interest; Ashley Kopczynski, associate portfolio manager, credit and ESG Janus Henderson has launched a new annual Corporate Debt Index, noting that company borrowings around the world surged to a record A$12.0 trillion in 2019, up 8.1% year-on-year ...

Consortium participants identify impact characteristics of AAP investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... established in 2006. "At the end of the day, the deal is largely philanthropic with a small amount of mostly concessional debt. Our aim is to have the business self-sustaining in three years and pay back debt after that. Some small amounts of the debt ...

Data enhances case for ESG as separate, interrelated factor to quality

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... side, and it yields the same result," he said. "All things being equal, if you have a clearer ESG narrative, your cost of debt financing is cheaper. That is to the benefit of the corporate - there is a corporate perk of having higher disclosure and better ...

Insight Investment launches proprietary ESG risk rating system

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... critical part of Insight's approach to ESG risk analysis. Eighty-two percent of Insight's meetings with sovereign and corporate debt issuers covered ESG topics in 2019, up from 54% the previous year. "A lot of the environmental and social factors will ...