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Treasurers cite positive impact in green bonds: Climate Bonds Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... from 34 countries. Respondent organisations represented around 44% of the identified green bond universe accounting for a total of US$7.4 trillion in bonds outstanding, including US$222 billion of green bonds and collectively 686 green bonds at the time ...

ASEAN green bond issuance reaches US$7.8bn: Climate Bond Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Singapore is the regional leader in ASEAN green debt issuance in 2019, with 55% of total issuance, up from 29% in 2018. Two thirds of proceeds are allocated to the Buildings and Energy sectors. Globally ...

Emerging markets present opportunities for impact investing: 57 Stars

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... how their investments are aligned with the SDGs, and this framework facilitates that.... [We also use] what we call the total impact value multiple, which seeks to estimate the total value dollar of the company's social/environmental impacts. We're trying ...

Commonwealth Bank provides sustainability-linked finance to Wesfarmers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... through achieving proportional representation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. This would equate to a total of approximately 3000 people across Wesfarmers' existing workforce by the end of 2022. The environmental metrics aim to reduce ...

Cromwell Property Group reports on sustainability progress for 2019

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... has a market capitalisation of $3 billion, a direct property investment portfolio in Australia valued at $2.5 billion and total assets under management of $11.9 billion across Australia, New Zealand and Europe. Cromwell had more than 3,800 tenant customers ...

Australian mutual fund assets rise to $66.8bn in 2019: Cerulli Associates

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... growth of 11.1% y-o-y. According to Morningstar data, eight sustainable investment ETFs were launched in 2019, taking their total number to 23. Sustainable investments to continue growing strongly, Cerulli said. Cerulli also expects ESG ETFs to maintain ...

CEFC commits up to $125m in Qualitas property debt fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) has made an investment of up to $125 million in a new property debt fund designed to finance the construction and management of energy efficient, low emissions build-to-rent (BTR) residential buildings. Ian ...

Energy Super taps Robeco for $650m enhanced indexing mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... the client's preferences are and structure a portfolio with that in mind," Dennis said. "We also can have the profile of a total portfolio to have a better ESG profile than the index that they're managing towards, and we can have that at different levels ...

Taskforce recommends government support to build social impact investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... billion at the end of 2017. But the vast majority of finance is for environmentally focused investments: only 4% of the 2017 total or $242 million was socially focused, the interim report noted. At the end of 2018, there was an estimated US$502 billion ...

Comment: hindsight is 2020

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... Australia is a resource rich nation that exports coal, fossil fuels and meat. Mineral fuels including oil make up 34.6% of total exports. Ores, slag and ash (including iron ore) make up 23.5% of exports. And meats (farm animals emit greenhouse gases) ...