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BayernLB joins Climate Bond Initiative as Climate Bonds Partner

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... investor engagement, Climate Bonds Initiative. "Within European green finance markets, we see increasing momentum in Germany, led by institutions like BayernLB. To address the ever-more threatening impacts of climate change, it is time for all German ...

Nanuk Asset Management on sustainability aspects of artificial intelligence

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
Advancements in Artificial intelligence (AI) have led to fundamental changes in industries by "creating commercial solution efficiencies on an unprecedented scale," according to Nanuk Asset Management. Tristan Patience, investment manager, Nanuk Asset ...

US activists target banks over finance to for-profit prisons, detention centres

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
... Group to stop lending money. At first pass representatives of a more targeted campaign, called Corporate Backers of Hate and led by the Center for Popular Democracy and Make the Road New York, protested outside of J P Morgan Chase's CEO Jamie Dimon's ...

Stewart Investors backs research on packaging sustainability performance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... has commissioned research from the Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF) at the University of Technology Sydney that has led to the development of a packaging sustainability performance framework. David Gait, managing partner, Stewart Investors Stewart ...

New reporting tool to improve Australian packaging sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... will lead to further improvements in packaging sustainability year on year." Dr Scott Kelly, the Research Director at ISF who led the tool development project said, "We believe the APCO reporting tool is a world first online self-assessment tool for ...

Macquarie Group issues £500 million facility to finance green projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... Ltd." In 2017 Macquarie acquired the UK's Green Investment Bank, which is now the Green Investment Group (GIG). Macquarie has led more than £15 billion of investment in green infrastructure since 2010 and has supported the creation of 20GW of green ...

Meat and fish producers not managing ESG risks: FAIRR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... investment space is that unless you're a specialist in the agriculture sector, it can be hard to grapple with the risks, which has led to superannuation investment being low in the sector. What emerges from that enquiry is ways to overcome those challenges ...

Super funds continue to expand responsible investment activities: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... means there's greater commitment of resourcing, much more evidence of how responsible commitments are being embedded. That has led to a number of things, but providing choice and providing options is part of it. There's a nice complement to that in that ...

CEFC extends investment with P2P lender RateSetter by 18 months

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
... 10,000 Australian investors registered to lend on the platform. Additionally, the company completed a $10.5 million fundraising led by private equity investor FiveV Capital and appointed former ING Direct CEO Vaughn Richtor as chair of the board.

Pollinate Energy merges with US-based Empower Generation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
... Development Goals (SDG) goals. Products are distributed through a unique network of local entrepreneurs - a predominately woman-led salesforce - who either own their own franchise or are employed directly by the organisation. Pollinate Energy, which ...