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Aware Super expands investment restrictions

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2025  |  NEWS
... will no longer apply to securitised assets - meaning financial products that give the holder exposure to a pool of loans, bonds or other debt products. Aware Super said this change is designed to help increase the level of diversification for the Credit ...

Green bonds: The good, the bad, the opportunities

JOHANN PLE  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2025  |  NEWS
Calendar year 2024 was another strong year for green bonds. The sector outperformed the conventional bond market by close to 2% and broke new records of issuance. While issuance is still mainly in EUR, we believe this sets the green bond market up well ...

BlackRock, Vanguard bankroll 'genocide', illegal occupation: UN

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025  |  NEWS
... BNP Paribas and Barclays as some of the major financial institutions that funded Israeli's budget that use treasury bonds and play "a critical role in funding the ongoing assault on Gaza". "From 2022 to 2024, the Israeli military budget grew from ...

Equity Trustees fined by ASIC

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
... statement, target market determination and website all stated that the fund invested in green, sustainable and social corporate bonds issued by companies. The PDS stated: "The Investment Manager's strategy for the fund is to invest in a diversified ...

Australia's sustainable finance taxonomy launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
... use over time to help us and our members understand the sustainable finance assets in our portfolio," she said. Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI), which is an ASFI technical development partner, said it will expand its certification scheme to include criteria ...

Sustainable bonds hit $US7bn

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
The global sustainable bond market reached US$6.9 trillion at the end of 2024, the Climate Bonds Initiative's latest Global State of the Market Report shows. The Climate Bonds Initiative examined green, social, and sustainability (GSS) and sustainability-linked ...

Record green bond issuance on the cards

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
... Europe and Asia. Meantime, US issuer share fell to 8.5%, contributing to a significant decline in USD-denominated green bonds, it said. This trend aligns with the general anti-ESG attitude that has taken over much of the US. "Despite the current ESG ...

Super moves: Future Fund, WTW

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
... Funds SA, where he most recently served as a portfolio manager. He managed the debt sector, which included cash, sovereign bonds, inflation-linked bonds, corporate credit, and emerging market debt, in addition to overseeing liquid alternatives. Earlier ...

Green moves: Agscent, HSBC

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
After 30 years in the financial markets glued to bonds and futures contracts, Dugald Lamont has changed tack and joined Agscent, an agri-biotech company at the forefront of sustainable agricultural innovation. The former executive director of JP Morgan ...

PE left 3bn tonnes of emissions: Emmi

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2025  |  NEWS
... that the global fixed income debt market faces significant climate-transition risks as trillions of dollars in outstanding bonds are exposed to potential financial disruption by 2030. This represents a "GFC-level economic event" as more than $1.6 trillion ...