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MUFG Bank structures $333 million green financing deal

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 29 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... acted as original mandated lead arranger and lender, bookrunner, facility agent, intercreditor agent, account bank and hedging bank. This is the third project financing undertaken by MUFG for Softbank in India. The transaction closed in August, and with ...

Increased integration of ESG in securities lending: State Street Associates

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... incremental income to a portfolio, and securities lending can be used as part of various strategies, including shorting, hedging and arbitrage. The State Street Associates research identified several main findings - short selling facilitated by securities ...

Industry coalition organises Principles for Sustainable Securities Lending

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... incremental income to a portfolio, and securities lending can be used as part of various strategies, including shorting, hedging and arbitrage. There is increasing discussion about how to integrate ESG policies and processes down into securities lending. ...

Integrating ESG considerations in securities lending programs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... incremental income to a portfolio, and securities lending can be used as part of various strategies, including shorting, hedging and arbitrage. "Before we look at securities lending itself, we should be taking a step back and looking at short selling," ...

Swiss Re hedges wind risk for Infigen Energy wind farms

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... "It puts earnings in a predictable band, and deals with volatility, whether that be wind, or wind-induced earnings." By hedging out the risk of volatile earnings because of low output, wind farms can potentially access lower costs to debt financing ...

Video: Fossil Fuel Divestment Exposure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... in this area. Brian Scott, CEO, Amundi Asset Management pointed to a report co-authored by pension fund AP4 and Amundi, Hedging Climate Risk, as one example. The panel was sponsored by MSCI and Amundi Asset Management Australia. Moderated by Rachel Alembakis ...

Australian Ethical launches Fixed Interest Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... AU$120 million in assets under management. It does not hold any international bond issuance, because of the impact of hedging out currency volatility, Macri said. "With international bonds, you'd want to hedge the currency, because the currency is more ...

Valuing ESG risks, return potential in real assets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... be a significant one. What we do, by investing in farmlands and water with a sustainability focus, what we're doing is hedging to an extent, but you'd have to have a very large portfolio with farmlands and stocks to have the assets to have a significant ...

ETS proposal put auctions, carbon hedging on tighter agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... July 2014. The proposal would end the fixed price on carbon a year early and catalyse liable entities to organise their hedging and trading policies faster than expected. Jennifer Lauber-Patterson "It means that business is going to have to make sure ...

Low Carbon Australia finances $11m pilot energy project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... Carbon Australia] certainly helped us with tenure and the way we structured the funding accommodated the ability to do the hedging ahead as well. Low Carbon Australia -bring a lot of expertise and skills and understanding the sector." NovaPower is also ...