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HSBC Asset Management launches ESG Asia bond fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
... practices "resulting in low and/or decreasing carbon intensity," and sustainable bonds, including green bonds, sustainability linked bonds, transition bonds and social bonds. The fund will also use negative screening to exclude low ESG rated sectors ...

CFOs see ESG action as central: Deloitte

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
... key stakeholders - investors and employees - are saying it's important," said Deloitte partner, climate and sustainability Paul Dobson. "Finance has a massive role to play in driving this and affecting change. Historically, ESG and sustainability ...

Weighing climate risk in corporate bonds: Insight Investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
... and that's healthy for investors." Insight has turned its analysis to both sustainability-linked bonds and sustainability linked securitisation, but data limitations present challenges, Kendall said. "A lot of our clients are asking those questions about ...

TCorp issues $1.5 billion sustainability bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
TCorp has issued another $1.5 billion sustainability bond, linked to both social and green projects in the state of NSW. The $1.5 billion 2.50% 22 November 2032 benchmark sustainability bond is TCorp's fourth bond issued under the NSW Sustainability ...

Predictions for robust investment in green transition, sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 6 JAN 2022  |  NEWS
... Australia is continuing to "pivot" towards a sustainable finance, Westpac said, saying that issuance of sustainability linked loans more than doubled in 2021.

CBA announces $250 in green financing deals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2021  |  NEWS
... entirely for funding loans designed to drive sustainable outcomes. The term deposit is linked to CBA's existing sustainability linked loan (SLL) portfolio. It is separate to the bank's green term deposit, said CBA head of trading Mitchell Grosser. "It ...

NAB, Ramsay Health Care in ESG derivative transaction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2021  |  NEWS
... ESG-linked interest rate swap exclusively with NAB, the bank reported. The ESG targets are linked to an existing sustainability linked loan (SLL). "The ESG linked swap has a credit spread that is linked to the company's performance vis a vis the ...

Charter Hall signs green development loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... capital is linked to the green characteristics of the asset. "We're building assets that are at the forefront of sustainability requirements because our tenants require it and because our investors are looking to own those types of assets," Schretzmeyer ...

NAB launches sustainability-linked derivatives

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... sustainability-linked derivatives (SLDs) include swaps, cross currency swaps, interest rate and executed alongside sustainability linked bonds or sustainability linked loans. An SLD has a pricing component tied to the sustainability targets of the underlying ...

Bank launches sustainability-linked derivatives

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... achievement of future sustainability targets and their sustainability performance." It is anticipated that sustainability linked derivatives are most likely to be applied to interest rate swaps, given that they are the most used instrument by clients ...