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Millennials prioritise long term returns, fees in investment funds: Calastone

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2019  |  NEWS
... already invested. Calastone's report is based off of a survey of more than 3,000 people aged 23-35 across Australia, U.K., France, Germany, U.S. and Hong Kong about their attitudes to personal saving and investing. Survey respondents were given a ranked ...

G7 Ministers statement supports growth of the impact investing market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2019  |  NEWS
... efficient financing approach" to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In the statement, ministers from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States also said they "stress the need to create enabling policy ...

Insight Investment applies traffic light analysis to green, impact bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
... Insight applies these standards to sovereign as well as corporate bonds, Kendall noted. "We've evaluated Ireland, Poland, France, and the Netherlands, and their green bonds, and in certain situation we find there are weaknesses, and in other situations ...

Global responsible investment assets top US$30 trillion: GSIA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019  |  NEWS
... issues become mandated requirements in law, those funds are not included in the survey," O'Connor said. "Particularly in France, that's meant that actually the bar has lifted as to what's been included in the report. That means action is incredibly buoyant ...

Natixis joins the Climate Bonds Initiative Partners Program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019  |  NEWS
... investment banking, asset management, insurance and financial services arm of Groupe BPCE, the second largest banking group in France with 31 million clients spread over two retail banking networks, Banque Populaire and Caisse d'Epargne. "We are thrilled ...

WorldGBC launches Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2018  |  NEWS
... Francisco, San Jose, Santa Monica & Washington DC, USA; Medellin, Colombia; Montreal, Toronto & Vancouver, Canada; Paris, France; Stockholm, Sweden; Sydney, Australia; and Tokyo, Japan. "At the City of Sydney, we've been carbon neutral since 2007, and ...

Less than one-fifth of board, executive positions held by women globally: Vigeo Eiris

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... disparities in board and executive percentages. The highest average rates of female directors are found in Norway (41%), France (39%) and Sweden (34%), but in terms of the average proportion of women in executive positions, developing countries such ...

Climate-aligned bond universe jumps to US$895 billion: Climate Bonds Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2017  |  NEWS
... 19%. In terms of Green bonds, the largest labelled green bond issuers in descending order are Supranationals, USA, China, France, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, Canada, Australia, India and Brazil, while New York City is amongst the largest sub-sovereign ...

Green Bond issuance up 50% on first half of 2016: Climate Bonds Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2017  |  NEWS
... equally I have yet to find a treasurer who wasn't a fan afterwards and happy to say so on the public record." In January, France's sovereign debt agency, Agence France Tresor (AFT) issued a â,¬7 billion 22-year green bond. Thus far in 2017, the French ...

Removing complicity in modern slavery?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2017  |  NEWS
... process of reviewing submissions which will consider whether similar or improved measures to those adopted in the UK (and France) should be introduced in Australia. Appropriate action could help establish best practice by requiring Australian companies ...