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Ethical investments recover performance: Chant West

ROSE MARY PETRASS, RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
Ethical investment options may have now entered a phase where they are performing well compared to traditional funds. Last year the news hit headlines that just one-third of ethical managed investment funds have outperformed their non-ethical peers ...

Standard Chartered Bank gets first head of social sustainability

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
Natalie Marko Nietsch has been appointed first head of social sustainability at Standard Chartered Bank. She will drive commercial social sustainability pillar from Singapore, leading new business and partnerships to boost the bank's social impact. ...

S&P Global drops ESG letter ratings from credit reports

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... Ashley Moody, directed their fund managers to invest "without considering the ideological agenda of the environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) agenda."

Industy veterans named to sustainable finance taxonomy working group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... sectors, and associated technical work on data requirements, methodology for incorporating transitional activities, minimum social safeguards and a Do No Significant Harm framework. As secretariat, ASFI will work with an international consortium of taxonomy ...

Social license or social-washing - weighing the value of public statements on the Voice

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 10 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... statements. Corporates are evaluating whether to weigh in on their position on the Voice, balancing criticism of potential social-washing and virtue signalling versus corporate responsibility and social license to operate in the communities in which ...

Sustainable finance heavyweight to chair National Reconstruction Fund board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... and a director of MetaOptima Technology Inc. He is also an adjunct professor at UNSW and a member of the UNSW Centre for Social Impact's Advisory Council. Kathryn Presser, currently the chair of the South Australian Department of Treasury and Finance's ...

Morgan Stanley reaches 70% of $1tn sustainable finance goal

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... is specifically earmarked for sustainability initiatives. The funding will go towards clean energy, carbon removal, and social housing within multiple divisions of the bank including securitised products, commodities, and wealth management. Morgan Stanley's ...

Podcast: Solving the social housing crisis - Casey Taylor

THE GREENER WAY  |  THURSDAY, 3 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... investors, and industry to help tackle issue. Conscious Investment Management has invested in several specialist affordable, social and affordable housing projects as part of its investment mandate, and Casey will talk to us about Conscious Investment ...

La Trobe Uni issues $175m green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... will have the opportunity to be part of a sustainable investment portfolio that aligns with their own environmental and social values," Smith said. "Furthermore, the green bond offering demonstrates La Trobe's dedication to corporate responsibility ...

Asset managers failing on 2050 goals: InfluenceMap

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 1 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... Zero house in order, and planning beyond the next quarter to fully account for the long-term and irremediable economic and social impacts if we don't respect the science." Research from ShareAction in June found the world's largest 77 asset managers ...