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Hostplus boosts VC funding for renewable energy tech

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
Super fund Hostplus gives the sustainable investment sector a big boost by committing an additional $125 million investment to the IP Group Hostplus Innovation Fund. Hostplus added to its existing $310 million investment to bring its total commitment ...

BNPP AM launches Future Forest Fund

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... expert IWC. The French fund manager acquired a majority stake in IWC back in 2022 to expand its sustainable private investment offering. At the time, IWC was already overseeing more than $8.9 billion in timberland investments globally. "The Future Forest ...

Green moves: Westpac, Care Super, BlackRock, Quinbrook, Ortec, CAA

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... "There is inevitably growing concern and heightened focus on how [climate-related] events will impact asset classes and investment decision making over the short and long-term," said de Reus. He will support clients "in making informed portfolio allocation ...

First Aussie circularity fund shoots for $1bn

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... economy where no resource goes to waste, with a goal of $1 billion FUM in the next five years. To launch the fund, the investment banker and family office teamed up with environmental organisation Planet Ark - which runs the Australian Circular Economy ...

Super funds set renewables targets

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... (ASFA) has welcomed the decision at a recent Treasury investor roundtable to progress work towards encouraging greater investment in Australia's renewables transition. The roundtable was for the Net Zero Transition Working Group to consider ASFA'S ...

New tool sniffs out greenwashing

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... offering this tool for free, Future Group is not only advocating for but actively supporting a climate-responsible investment landscape." The science-based tool - appropriately named 'RealZero Check' - helps financiers set credible net zero targets ...

Podcast: How Trump will impact global clean energy and climate finance with Lachlan Carey

THE GREENER WAY  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... US President-elect Donald Trump, with our guest Lachlan Carey. Lachlan is a Washington-based expert on clean energy investment and a non-resident fellow at the United States Studies Centre. According to MIT analysis, a Trump presidency will increase ...

ETFs recover and dominate

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
Sustainable ETFs are thriving after having a rough year prior, according to Rainmaker's latest Wholesale Managed Funds Net Flow Report. The data covers net flows of 1100 products across 170 different asset managers in all asset classes. Over the ...

Future Fund to back energy transition, residential housing

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... transition, residential housing, and infrastructure. The $230 billion sovereign wealth fund has been provided with a new investment mandate and statement of expectations, with the government opting to defer drawing down on the fund until at least FY33. ...

COP29 skirts diplomatic disaster

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
An eleventh-hour agreement on carbon markets was the major outcome of the world's largest climate conference which spiraled into an ineffective platform for international negotiation. After a decade of negotiations, parties agreed on Article 6 ...