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Lombard Odier brings plastic circularity fund down under

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
Lombard Odier Investment Managers (LOIM) is bringing its Plastic Circularity Fund to Australia, following a first close last year with backing from the sovereign wealth fund of Monaco, among others. The LOIM Plastic Circularity Fund (Australia), a private ...

New campaign pushes for reproductive leave

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
Calls for a paid reproductive leave scheme are mounting, as Queensland Unions launches a campaign pushing for new entitlements including preventative health leave. It comes as the Senate investigates issues related to menopause and perimenopause. The ...

Funds SA hires ESG expert

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... returned to Adelaide after spending the second half of 2023 studying a Master of Science (Public Policy and Management) in the USA. Before the study break, she worked at Duxton Capital in the ESG team, where she led the development and implementation ...

Decarbonising aluminium key priority for Capral

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
Decarbonising aluminium's supply chain is a key business and industry aim for aluminium extruder and distributor Capral. Capral is Australia's largest aluminium extrusion business with 65,000 tonnes capacity, six manufacturing bases in Australia and ...

Senior appointments at ag managers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... restructured its senior leadership. Impact Ag founder and chief executive officer Bert Glover will transition to CEO-president USA. Impact Ag has hired Hugh Killen, as chief executive officer and managing director Australia, who is also remaining on ...

Shell shareholders worth €4tr to vote for Paris

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... climate targets, according to Follow This. The group of co-filing investors from Belgium, France, the Netherlands, the UK, the USA, Sweden, and Switzerland include: Amundi, with €1,973 billion AUM, Scottish Widows with €200 billion AUM, and Candriam ...

BlackRock admits stakeholder pressure on ESG a risk

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... governmental action and scrutiny," it stated. One of Blackrocks biggest ESG-labelled exchange-traded funds - iShares MSCI USA ESG Select ETF (SUSA) - has suffered a $1.5b net investor outflow in the past four trading sessions, according to Bloomberg ...

ASX50 lags on disclosure of political spending: ACCR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... more resolutions and investor focus on that topic. That hasn't been a shareholder focus here in Australia as much as in the USA." ACCR also homed in on disclosures at BHP, Origin, Rio Tinto, Santos and Woodside - all companies with which ACCR regularly ...

Australian businesses failing to achieve on sustainability goals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
Although Australian business leaders rank sustainability as being high in their organisational corporate structure, only 35% of businesses have achieved set sustainability targets over the past two years, according to Cognizant. The IT services and ...

NZ solar attracts $170 million international capital raise

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
New Zealand's green investment bank has led a $170 million capital raise for its Solar Finance programme, attracting First Sentier Investors and Natixis Investment Managers. Green Investment Finance (NZGIF)'s issuance has been certified by the Climate ...