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Baring Private Equity Asia inks multi-billion dollar SLL

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2021  |  NEWS
... reduction. At the firm level, BPEA plans to create a long-term climate strategy to guide both its corporate activities and engagement with portfolio companies. A further target is linked to BPEA further strengthening its investment process by integrating ...

HESTA, Lendlease back First Nations initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 OCT 2021  |  NEWS
... action plan (RAP), and is related to its business strategy, said Cath Brokenborough, executive lead, First Nations engagement, Lendlease, and chair of the Dhawura Ngilan Business and Investor Initiative. "We've been working out how we can fulfil our ...

Managing biodiversity loss a governance risk: Vontobel

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 OCT 2021  |  NEWS
... about it as a small part of the market." Waste reduction and increased resource efficiency are areas where investor engagement can be effective, Roc-Sennett said. "When you start dealing with companies it gets interesting, because there are companies ...

Tightening climate focus on world's biggest emitters: Aviva Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... does the Climate Escalation Programme fit in with Aviva Investors' overall approach to investment stewardship and engagement? A: We organise our engagement programmes across three sustainable outcome pillars - climate, earth and people - designed ...

Weighing litigation risk of net zero targets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... what they say when in engagements with stakeholders such as investors, Millar added. "One of the points around the engagement with groups that are seeking to affect change in corporate behaviour, those discussions tend to be pursued on a confidential ...

Janus Henderson launches sustainable ETF

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... our investment process from universe definition to portfolio construction and active ownership. We consider a strong engagement ethos as being essential to any truly sustainable investment strategy."

Ratcheting up ambition on climate finance goals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... failure. Climate change is arguably the world's biggest market failure. ESG integration only takes you so far. Engagement with companies will only take us up to the point where it pays for companies to do the right thing. We are at the point where ...

Integrating ESG into securitised asset strategies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... impact. "There is a growing realisation that you can be quite influential as a fixed income investor when it comes to engagement," "Ok, fine, we don't have voting power. But we can vote with our money because the majority of transactions that happen ...

Climate transition a business opportunity: Geoff Summerhayes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... to build capability across key areas including leadership, insight and risk, strategy and targets, opportunity, and engagement and disclosure. In Pollination's experience, however, while institutions are improving their risk management, they are ...

Federated Hermes launches climate change high yield credit strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... progress and impact towards decarbonisation that holdings are making. The strategy will screen out companies where engagement on climate change transition has failed and controversial sectors and heavy greenhouse gas-emitting issuers "that have no desire ...