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Australian Sustainable Finance Initiative sets ambitious investment agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
... Australia's largest superannuation funds, insurance companies and industry groups have launched the Australian Sustainable Finance Initiative, a collaborative group to steer investment towards human wellbeing, social equity and environmental protection. ...

UBank launches world first certified Green Term Deposit

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
... not-for-profit organisation and the only one in the world working solely on mobilising the $100 trillion market for sustainable finance to help address climate change," said Glen Aiton, chief product innovation officer at UBank. "Pursuing the certification ...

Australia, EU Free Trade Agreement includes SDGs, climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... market creation has occurred and you see that in the work they're doing with EU circular economy program, EU sustainable finance plan, and the various other momentum we're seeing around net zero carbon by 2050 or earlier. You're also starting to see ...

Australian funds join international controversial weapons call

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... Morningstar, MSCI, S&P Dow Jones Indices and STOXX. The initiative began in Switzerland and is coordinated by Swiss Sustainable Finance. It has gathered momentum due to a presence on the PRI Collaboration Platform. "Aligning investor portfolios to established ...

IOSCO releases statement on ESG-related disclosures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2019  |  NEWS
... investor and issuer movements with regards to ESG-related disclosures and noted that they had established a Sustainable Finance Network of securities regulators to "share their experiences and engage in focused discussions about developments in the market ...

Natixis joins the Climate Bonds Initiative Partners Program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019  |  NEWS
... and distribution, and to double green business revenues by 2020," said Orith Azoulay, Global Head of Green & Sustainable Finance, Corporate & Investment Banking, Natixis. "As such, this partnership demonstrates, once again, our engagement to be very ...

BayernLB joins Climate Bond Initiative as Climate Bonds Partner

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... banks. As Climate Bonds Partner, Bayern LB is "further advancing their engagement in developing green and sustainable finance," the Climate Bonds Initiative said. "The market for sustainable capital market products is expanding more dynamically than ...

Finance sector calls for development of Sustainable Finance Roadmaps

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... institutions representing more than 300 institutions with $10 trillion in assets have called for the development of Sustainable Finance Roadmaps for Australia and New Zealand. The statement was released at the end of the 2018 United Nations Environment ...

Investors, credit ratings agencies grapple with ESG impacts on ratings: PRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... PRI added. "As investors and regulators increasingly focus on the role of the debt market in facilitating sustainable finance, the findings of this report highlight how important our initiative is in building knowledge and fostering action," said My-Linh ...

ANZ prices €750 million bond linked to Sustainable Development Goals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2018  |  NEWS
... Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) bond in the European wholesale debt capital markets. Katharine Tapley, head of sustainable finance solutions (SFS), loans and specialised finance, ANZ The bond raised â,¬750 million to fund ANZ loans and expenditures ...