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Climate Action 100+ aviation engagement takes off

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... noted Laura Hillis, director of Climate Action 100+ at the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC). "It doesn't change the nature of engagement, it will continue with the engagement priorities and investors will continue to ask them to meet special requests ...

Australia on global list for deforestation hotspots: WWF

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... the top 24 global deforestation front, making Australia the only developed nation on a list from the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). WWF's new report Deforestation fronts: Drivers and responses in a changing world, names 24 locations across Latin America ...

Global fund managers unite to accelerate natural capital investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... is establishing a series of Natural Capital funds, directly investing in the preservation, protection and enhancement of nature. Lombard Odier launched a first-of-its-kind global equities investment strategy for natural capital last year, developed in ...

Auction system proposed to halve electricity emissions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 22 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... contracts. The cost of the CPM could either be borne by taxpayers or generators, or a combination therein, depending on the nature of the political calculation, D'Hotman said. "We were explicit in saying we don't' make a value judgement on ...

Industry considers Australian sustainable finance taxonomy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... Climate-related Financial Disclosures] TCFD recommendations, to start convening a project group around the Task Force on Nature-related Financial Disclosures] TFND and being the body that joins the dots of the activity that exists," ASFI co-chair Simon ...

Capital raisings, remuneration impact proxy vote: Dimensional

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... around procedure, Singh added. However, questions still remain around whether companies are correctly raising capital, the nature and structure of advisory fees relating to capital placements and other concerns. "As an asset manager, we acknowledge that ...

Integrating climate impacts in quant strategies: Acadian Asset Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... up on it when it occurs. It's moving beyond what companies are doing today, but integrating more of that forward looking nature. This includes looking at emissions reductions targets, policies, how aggressive they are, what they are, who's responsible ...

Roadmap outlines sustainable transformation for finance industry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... Climate-related Financial Disclosures] TCFD recommendations, to start convening a project group around the Task Force on Nature-related Financial Disclosures] TFND and being the body that joins the dots of the activity that exists," O'Connor says. Several ...

Real asset investments as vehicle for return, positive impact

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... meaningful spread... while delivering very uncorrelated returns during times like we just went through because of the long term nature of the contracts." By investing in apartments and dwellings that are fit for purpose to support housing for people ...

Link between post-bushfire regeneration and impact investing: WWF-Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia (WWF-Australia) has launched a wildlife and nature regeneration program to fund solutions that could become impact investments. WWF-Australia is launching the Innovate to Regenerate project, which consists of two ...