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Northern Trust firms up stewardship, proxy voting offering

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... well-positioned to navigate shifting economic conditions, display strong governance practices and manage material risks to their business models." NOTE: A previous version of this article stated the proxy voting solution was made available in June. This ...

Super fund moves: Aware Super, AustralianSuper, Mine Super and Cbus

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... relationship and sales director. She has previously worked at Fidelity Investment Management as a director of institutional business, U Ethical as a relationship manager and Schroders as a sales professional. Asai also did a spell with the Principles ...

Help on nature, climate disclosures

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... their nature-related dependencies and impacts," Tony Goldner, executive director of the TNFD said. Nature risks "are business risks that should be measured and disclosed in a more robust manner," Esther An, TNFD taskforce member and GRI supervisory board ...

Quinbrook closes clean energy capital raise at $3bn

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... investor confidence in Quinbrook's active management strategy focused on project development, asset creation, and business platform growth. "We seek higher 'value add' returns from infrastructure opportunities offered by the energy transition ...

ISS ESG to plug emissions data shortfall for banks, insurers

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... climate risks, regulatory alignment, and much more, to develop a broad and deep dataset," said Till Jung, head of ESG business at ISS STOXX. To date, ISS ESG provides emissions data for 38,500 issuers. The Industry Average Emission Intensity data set ...

IFM, ASX-listed firms bet on renewable fuels

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
IFM Investors has partnered with ASX-listed firms GrainCorp and Ampol in a bid to establish the country's fledgling renewable fuels industry. The three organisations committed in a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to help reduce emissions, starting ...

UniSuper's environmental option returns -16%

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... of Donald Trump, a vehement opposer to clean energy. While campaigning, he has referred to renewable energy as a "scam business" and has already made promises to scrap offshore wind projects if elected. Pearce also cited Chinese EV and solar panel production ...

Podcast: Moving business towards a low carbon economy with Jon Dee

THE GREENER WAY  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
This episode is all about the power of advocacy and moving business towards a low carbon economy. Influential public figure, philanthropist Jon Dee is the founder of a number of initiatives including Planet Ark, DoSomething, and National Recycling Week. ...

QIC taps resilience skills

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... sustainability principal Andrew Sellick said sustainability has transformed from a narrow view of the environmental impact of a business to a broad cross-section of strategic challenges that are expanding in breadth and accelerating at a rapid pace. ...

PEP rides ESG tailwinds

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
Australasia's largest private equity firm with $11 billion AUM has launched an investment vehicle across the ditch. PEP's latest investment fund is not advertised as ESG, but has an underlying ESG strategy. Pacific Equity Partners (PEP) says ...