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Aberdeen Standard Investments hires Bill Hartnett

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2019  |  NEWS
... ESG Investment and will be based in London with a specific remit to support investment colleagues in Emerging Markets and Asia Pacific. Hartnett moved to ASI from the $12 billion Local Government Super, where he was head of responsible investment. "We ...

Coca-Cola Amatil joins membership of BCSD Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2019  |  NEWS
... Sustainable Business Australia Coca-Cola Amatil is one of the largest bottlers and distributors of ready-to-drink beverages in the Asia-Pacific. It has approximately 12,000 employees across the Asia-Pacific region and some of Australia's most recognisable ...

Majority of Asia-Pacific investors expect to integrate ESG: BNP Paribas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2019  |  NEWS
The majority of investors in the Asia Pacific region are aligning their ESG investment framework with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, according to a new BNP Paribas survey. Madhu Gayer, investment analytics and sustainability manager, BNP Paribas ...

Australian government awards $1.23m to Impact Investment Exchange

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2019  |  NEWS
... Investment Exchange (IIX) - a global organization driving impact investing - to develop the ecosystem for gender lens investing in Asia. Durreen Shahnaz, CEO and founder of IIX IIX operates an online platform, Impact Partners, which is an Asia-wide equity ...

Climate risk necessitates short and long term stress testing: Mercer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019  |  NEWS
... long-term impacts of climate change according to new research from Mercer. Helga Birgden, head of responsible investing for Asia Pacific at Mercer Institutional investors with a growth asset allocation can expect to see 11 basis points of additional ...

IFC to permit structuring of loans in accordance with Green Loan Principles

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
... self-certification by a borrower in some cases. The Green Loan Principles, were developed by the Loan Market Association (LMA), the Asia Pacific Loan Market Association (APLMA), and the Loan Syndications and Trading Association (LSTA), and were adopted ...

Australia, EU Free Trade Agreement includes SDGs, climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... economy needs access to open markets wherever it can find them, the wave of very high quality strategic FTAs done with North Asia/SE Asian partnerships has been really critical to that. Europe remains the largest economic partner full stop when we include ...

Corporate culture a factor in stock selection: WCM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... of time on what are those incentives. It depends on the industry, and it depends on cultural differences. For example, in Asia you don't find a lot of stock ownership by management in Northern Asia, so you can't use the same lens for a Japanese company ...

ACSI research outlines guidelines to assessing Modern Slavery risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... outlined potential areas in the healthcare sector. "Most Australian health care companies source their workers and goods from Asia, where low-cost labour is widespread," the report said. "Factories around Asia are also highly reliant on migrant workers ...

Human rights, trust, climate risk top sustainability agenda for 2019

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... 2019. "The big push into 2019 is what we saw turning out to the end of last year - the trust agenda," said Matthew Bell, Asia Pacific managing partner of climate change and sustainability services at EY. "With the Royal Commission closing the curtain ...