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Singapore-based Vena Energy issues US$325 million green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... design, procurement, construction, operation and maintenance of its solar, wind and battery energy storage systems in Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Philippines, Taiwan and Thailand.

Australian mutual fund assets rise to $66.8bn in 2019: Cerulli Associates

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
Australia's mutual fund assets in sustainable investments increased 23.0% year-on-year in 2019 to reach $66.8 billion, according to Cerulli Associates. Cerulli Associates said its estimates show that sustainable investments gathered $1.2 billion in ...

CEFC commits up to $125m in Qualitas property debt fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... estate financier and investment manager Qualitas has launched the Qualitas Build-to-Rent Impact Fund (QBIF), billed as Australia's first property debt fund to elevate minimum sustainability criteria into its investment criteria, as well as being Australia's ...

Governance Institute releases climate change risk disclosure guide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... are made on an if not/why not basis, we wanted to give our members, many of whom are involved in listed companies in Australia, guidance as to how they might go about doing that." Motto noted that director, governance and risk professionals, and C-suite ...

Energy Super taps Robeco for $650m enhanced indexing mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... a $650 million global equity enhanced indexing mandate incorporating sustainability criteria. Stephen Dennis, Robeco Australia head Robeco's enhanced indexing strategy "aims to deliver better than market returns after costs while integrating value, momentum ...

Sydney Airport issues $600m bond with sustainability linked tranche

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... direct Australian dollar investment," said Matthew Carr, MUFG's managing director and head of debt capital markets for Australia and New Zealand. "We are proud to have priced the world's first ESG-linked tranche and to have partnered with Sydney Airport ...

ASX200 boards above 30% women in aggregate, but six have none

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... our voluntary target of 30 per cent in December was a tremendous achievement," said Nicola Wakefield Evans, 30% Club Australia chair. "There is more work to be done though and the 30% club is now extending our focus on encouraging all individual boards ...

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 ...