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New Forests acquires US timber asset

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
New Forests has acquired a 63,000 hectare forest as part of a sustainable forest strategy. New Forests acquired the Hilt-Siskiyou Forest, a mixed-conifer forest along the California and Oregon border, from the Fruit Growers Supply Company (FGS) alongside ...

Zenith completes rollout of ESG classification framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
Zenith Investment Partners has finished identifying almost 900 funds against its responsible investment classification. Zenith has assessed 878 funds on its approved product list (APL) against its responsible investment framework, which works on five ...

Calculating the value of green transitions: UBS AM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... to forecast the cost for European companies. Marginal abatement cost curves, developed together with consulting firm Material Economics, provides the link between green CAPEX and OPEX, and emission reductions. UBS can then examine how currently available ...

CEFC, CBA finance plastic recycling facility

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... mixed plastics can no longer be exported, and from 2022 only plastic that has been sorted and processed into another material will be eligible for export. "As Australia's largest bank, we are delighted to support three of our key clients in making this ...

Global fund manager evolving approaches to ESG investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... TCFD's anticipatory framework across risk management, strategy and governance, beyond simply climate, to all financially material issues across SASB's 77 industry specific standards, resulting in a comprehensive risk assessment. The Vector Score applies ...

Tracking ESG impact in emerging markets improving: American Century

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
Companies in emerging markets are moving up the curve on integrating ESG information quickly, but disclosing material ESG risks is still a challenge, according to American Century investments. All emerging market equity funds at American Century integrate ...

ASX company signs $1.5bn sustainability linked loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... in the end, the business has to really own the target. The business really needs to drive it, in terms of what's material for us." The targets have been costed and put into future capex spend, Roberts said. The SLL link to the "Ramsay Cares" strategy ...

ASX company issues billion dollar sustainability linked bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... "Going forward we will look to link our financing to sustainability issues and hopefully it becomes more mainstream." Material ESG issues are increasingly being integrated into all transactions, not just labelled sustainability finance, said ANZ director ...

Integrating the circular economy into investment strategies: American Century

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... Victor Zhang noted that that capital budgeting - including natural capital - need to be taken into consideration as a material issue. "The importance of building a circular economy is that not only does it have the benefit of reducing externalities ...

Using climate scenarios to assess company risks, return

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
Using climate scenario analysis to evaluate climate risks at the company level can be an essential tool to identify potential risks as well as potential opportunities, according to Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI). ASI uses climate scenario analysis ...