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Nuveen, SGCH announce separate housing deals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2022  |  NEWS
Adelaide will see a new student accommodation housing project via Nuveen Real Estate while SGCH's affordable housing project with Lighthouse Infrastructure will expand in Western Sydney. Nuveen Real Estate will partner with Flinders University on The ...

Seeking action at "implementation" COP27

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2022  |  NEWS
... properly invested and planned for the resources and investment required to deliver on them." For JANA head of sustainability Rachel Halpern, one of the big outcomes could be whether governments commit to action that will help catalyse private investment ...

Strengthen governance to avoid investment greenwashing: SSGA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2022  |  NEWS
To manage the risk of greenwashing, asset managers need to focus on assuring that internal governance structures are consistent with regulatory expectations in various jurisdictions, according to State Street Global Advisors (SSGA). Greenwashing concerns ...

Australia joins COP27 forests partnership

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2022  |  NEWS
... said. There is an uptick in investment strategies based on natural capital and forestry, said JANA head of sustainability Rachel Halpern. "We're seeing more and more strategies, particularly in the last six months, that focus on natural capital and protection ...

Experts weigh net zero risks, opportunities of Origin Energy bid

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2022  |  NEWS
Super funds and other shareholders could be in a position for a second time this year to approve a proposal to privitise an electricity provider, as Brookfield and MidOcean Energy bid to take over Origin Energy. Brookfield and MidOcean, an LNG company ...

Podcast: Is gender diversity an alpha signal - with Joanna Nash

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2022  |  NEWS
In this week's episode, brought to you by Realindex Investments, we discuss how a single issue like gender diversity can be used as an alpha signal as well as a qualitative measure of company risk and opportunity. We speak with Realindex Investments ...

CDP to adopt ISSB climate standard from 2024

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2022  |  NEWS
CDP has announce that it will incorporate the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) climate-related Disclosures Standard from the 2024 disclosure cycle. The announcement came at COP27 at Sharm el-Sheikh. The announcement means that the ...

CBA appoints four to Commodities, Trade and Carbon business

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2022  |  NEWS
Commonwealth Bank has appointed four new managing directors to its recently created Commodities, Trade and Carbon (CTC) business. Martyn Whitehead joins CBA as managing director, commodities, leading the bank's strategy for its commodities business ...

Cbus adopts EU climate reporting standards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2022  |  NEWS
Cbus Super has updated its climate change roadmap to meet their 2030 target of reducing emissions by 45%, while changing is reporting for portfolio emissions that sees the fund's reported emissions reductions restated to reflect real-world outcomes. ...

Podcast: Investing in Better Futures with Emilie O'Neill

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2022  |  NEWS
In this week's episode we speak with Emilie O'Neill, co-head of ESG at fund manager Perennial Better Futures. O'Neill talks about what drives her as an analyst and how she looks at decarbonization, diversity and other key ESG issues and how they impact ...