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Investors identify positive impact through multiple finance strategies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
... microinsurance as a service that brings both positive financial return and social benefit. Alison Chan, director, sustainable finance at National Australia Bank, pointed to the growing sustainability linked loan (SLL) sector as an indicator of where ...

New CEO search underway for IGCC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2021  |  NEWS
... role to join a leading professional services firm. Emma Herd joined IGCC in 2015 following fifteen years in sustainable finance in the banking sector, and the IGCC Management Committee has begun a recruitment process for a new CEO. She will join EY Australia ...

State Street launches ESG service for securities lending

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2021  |  NEWS
State Street Global Markets has established an ESG-aware commingled cash collateral reinvestment strategy for clients of its agency lending program. The Agency Lending team of State Street Global Markets has partnered with State Street Global Advisors ...

NAB participates in £300 million sustainability linked loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2021  |  NEWS
... National Australia Bank acted as sustainability coordinator. The Anchor Hanover deal marks several firsts for the sustainable finance sector - the first sustainability linked loan in the UK housing association sector under which a borrower has committed ...

Real estate investment group issues $300 million green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... opportunities to support projects with strong sustainability credentials." The bond has been issued under a Sustainable Finance Framework aligned with the ICMA Green Bond Principles 2018, the Social Bond Principles 2020 and the Sustainability Bond Guidelines ...

Westpac inks $350 million sustainability linked loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... that the KPIs should be based on the material issues of the business," said Michael Chen, Westpac's head of sustainable finance. "We wanted specific KPIs that reflected the core of what G8 do. Having done an assessment of their material strategic initiatives ...

Opinion: Sustainable finance: the new normal in 2021

SIMON O'CONNOR, JACKI JOHNSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
Note: This piece was contributed by Jacki Johnson and Simon O'Connor, co-chairs of the Australian Sustainable Finance Initiative and solely reflect the writers' opinion Many will opine on the lessons learnt from 2020, but the seismic shifts ...

The conundrum of ESG in emerging markets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... than 2000 empirical studies by Gunnar Friede, Timo Busch and Alexander Bassen, published in the Journal of Sustainable Finance and Investment found a high correlation between emerging market companies with strong ESG performance and strong financial ...

SGX hires head of sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... Exchange (SGX) has hired Herry Cho to a newly created position of managing director, head of sustainability and sustainable finance. Cho will report to SGX CEO Loh Boon Chye, and joins 8 February. Her appointment is the latest stage in SGXs "multi-pronged ...

The articles you read in 2020

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 29 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... practice, working for public and private sector clients on climate risk, renewable energy, energy efficiency and sustainable finance. Prior to that, he was executive director of Climate Strategies, and senior strategy manager at Carbon Trust, both in ...