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Impact investor boosts affordable housing

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 14 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
In five years since inception, one asset manager which blends the expertise of nonprofit and finance specialists has invested over $400 million of impact via managed funds. Conscious Investment Management (CIM) is focused on delivering social and environmental ...

Insignia Financial to trial four-day work week

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 14 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... Financial is set to pilot a four-day work week, a win for employees in recent Enterprise Agreement (EA) negotiations. The Finance Sector Union (FSU) and Insignia Financial have capped months of bargaining, with 68% of employees voting in favour of a ...

First Sentier heeds the call of nature

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 10 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... Investment Management, Bank Australia, Metrics Credit Partners, and natural capital fund manager New Forests. It's not just the finance sector that can sign up - corporations like Qantas, educational institutions like the University of Sydney, and the ...

Westpac, CEFC back climate tech fund

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... Virescent Ventures second climate technology investment fund (Fund II). Cornerstone investors are Westpac and the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC). The new fund aims to deploy $200 million into technologies including clean energy, electrification ...

Economic woes hit ESG trades

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
Investor sentiment to ESG declined in the past financial year, according to a report on trading trends from forex shop IG. Just one third of Australian investors (35%) considered ESG factors important in their decision-making in June 2024, down from ...

Carbon price could stall $600bn super loss

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... pitfall is to calculate the cost of carbon in every business decision. A standardised pricing signal would enable the finance sector to lend to and invest in the corporate sector, including superannuation, in a way that efficiently allocates resources ...

Green jobs: Impactable, Ortec, Goldman Sachs, Compliance

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 3 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... Market impact investment funds." Meanwhile, Maurits van Joolingen has been made head of climate and ESG solutions at Ortec Finance, risk management solution provider for financial institutions. Van Joolingen will be responsible for the development and ...

Podcast: Maintaining competitive advantage in an age of climate transparency with Duncan Paterson

THE GREENER WAY  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... genuinely useful and actionable information? To unpack this topic and many more, the IGCC is holding its annual Climate Finance and Investment Summit, on 7-8 November at the Sofitel, Melbourne. This unmissable event brings together leading investment ...

AXA IM battles poor data on road to net zero

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
Despite acknowledging data accuracy uncertainties, AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) says its interim targets are on track and it will reach net zero by 2050. In its latest carbon reduction monitor and associated sustainability reports, the fund manager ...

Regulators to clamp down harder on greenwashing

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... reporting going forward," she said. Meanwhile, KPMG Global ESG Asset Management lead Geri McMahon said while the sustainable finance taxonomies are being developed in each country, the onus on each asset manager would be to define then what sustainable ...