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Investors back modern slavery compensation

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... in 2017. Now the investor-led, multi-stakeholder initiative Investors Against Slavery and Trafficking Asia Pacific (IAST APAC) has joined the with the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI), international human rights group Walk Free ...

SDG Loan Fund raises $1.1b of investor capital

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... of in the future." FS Sustainability recently reported how Australia's progress towards SDG targets, particularly in the APAC region, is essential to developing the country's sustainable finance strategy. Bloomberg ESG last month released a tool to assess ...

Podcast: Driving the just transition in APAC - Jane Ho

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... brought to you by BNP Paribas Asset Management, we'll be talking about stewardship and how issues that are specific to the APAC region impact on investment considerations. Joining us for this conversation is BNP Paribas Asset Management head of stewardship ...

Clean tech bags big bucks

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... fresher for longer Medsalv: Aims to eliminate healthcare waste by creating safe, reusable medical devices Roger Sharp, Bupa APAC chief sustainability and corporate affairs officer commented: "The healthcare sector has a significant environmental impact ...

Investors prepare for urgent action on nature

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... cultural value. "There's a lot of work to get there and we need it to happen fast," Julia Leske, managing director and head of APAC institutional sales at ISS ESG commented. "Climate was the first cab off the rank, biodiversity and nature are following ...

Investment in climate tech plummets 40%: PwC

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... despite falling in absolute terms, climate tech investments as a proportion of start-up investments continue to rise, with APAC leading on investment in mobility-related start-ups. This fall in investment can be attributed to market conditions rather ...

Climate risk or opportunity for insurance sector

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... as hard and as fast as we can. A lot of this is baked in, even if we meet the 1.5 degree target." Alison Drill Head PCSS APAC Swiss Re(Australia) said that asset owners need to "reduce risk, rather than respond afterwards with insurance." "It is an ongoing ...

Australian businesses failing to achieve on sustainability goals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... against, compared to 46% globally. "Noble ambitions are being set," said Cognizant AVP and head of sustainability solutions APAC region Jonathan Smith. "We're coming at this from a data technology point of view. I don't see the clients being ...

BlackRock, SGX, and MSCI launch US$426M Singapore climate action ETF

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... is the largest equity ETF launched in Singapore, with assets under management (AUM) of US$426 million at launch. BlackRock APAC head of iShares and index investments Peter Loehnert said the Asia Pacific is "the largest and fastest growing region for ...

Appointment round-up: TelstraSuper, CSIRO, FRRR

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... resilient and revitalised remote, rural and regional Australia". CSIRO-founded Main Sequence five new hires Main Sequence, the APAC deep tech investment fund founded by the CSIRO in 2017, has added five new hires to its growing team. The fund reached ...