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Australian miners top list as critical minerals demand grows: PwC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2022  |  NEWS
... minerals," said PwC national mining leader Debbie Smith. "It's not just about economic decisions when you have the ESG overlay, it has to be that all stakeholders will benefit from the decision, not just the shareholders." The 19 th annual Mine report ...

Strong flow of new ESG funds brought to market: Equity Trustees

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2022  |  NEWS
... neutral by 2050 world, there is more investment appetite in that. Some managers are also looking to have a carbon emissions overlay, and their products have to price those carbon credits. "We are also seeing more products linked to the Sustainable Development ...

Using ESG signals part of shorting strategy: Plato Investment Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
Using ESG signals to short high carbon-emitting companies that have a strong likelihood of underperforming is a key strategy of Plato Investment Management's new active net zero long/short hedge fund. The Plato Global Net Zero Hedge Fund aims to outperform ...

Weighing climate risk in corporate bonds: Insight Investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
... necessarily get energy efficiency certificates. You sometimes get postcode information, but not always, so how do you overlay that? How generic is the information, how useful would it be? "It's very difficult to make use of this information in an effective ...

ESG investing "fastest growing" priority for advisers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2021  |  NEWS
... where they're more advanced, about half of what's going to index funds is going to those with some sort of ESG overlay attached to them. We're also seeing increased green bonds issued out of the EU, on those, they're not keeping up with ...

Perpetual launches active ESG ETF

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 DEC 2021  |  NEWS
... said. "Obviously ESG is increasingly topical. "The Perpetual Ethical SRI fund is an Australian equity fund with an ESG overlay, and we're bringing something to market that has coming up on a 20-year history. People might be a little bit surprised to ...

Climate change "a first-order risk": RBA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2021  |  NEWS
... particular, it can serve as a focal point in terms of the scenarios used in the CVA, as well as providing a macroeconomic overlay that can be used by financial institutions and companies." Debelle said that the CVA is not a "stress test" for banks' ...

Charter Hall signs green development loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... Charter Hall's transaction opens the door for other developers to follow. "This new application of the green loan overlay will incentivise more Australian property developers to commit to building new commercial building stock to high environmental ...

Advisers integrating positive impact into investment choices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... invest in renewable energy, Zbik noted. "In 2020, over half the new clients I brought on requested an ethical/sustainable overlay," he said. "That's a real breadth of clients - historically, it would have been the younger clients, but last year ...

Royal Adelaide Hospital locks in $2bn social, green loans

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... education services as the state's largest accredited teaching hospital." A sustainability loan is a type of finance overlay that recognises a project or asset that achieves a combination of positive environmental and social outcomes. "The Sustainability ...