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ESG fund performance leans on growth

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
The sustainable investing space continues to mature, with increasing demand for genuine impact and valuation-based strategies over growth-focused ones, says Nomura UK's sustainable equities portfolio manager. Alex Rowe recently completed his APAC ...

Budget 2024: A win for clean energy, not environment

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... employment support and training, and $56m for Building Women's Careers. $17.3 million will expand Australia's sustainable finance taxonomy and create a labelling regime for sustainable products, and a further $1.3 million will develop guidance ...

Budget 2024: Regulators given boost to combat misconduct, cybersecurity

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... ASIC and APRA to combat greenwashing and other related financial misconduct and help further develop Australia's sustainable finance market. In a bid to promote the development of sustainable finance markets in Australia, the government is handing ...

Stewardship resources should double

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... recognises stewardship not merely as a necessary function but as a system-level and value-adding feature." PRI chief sustainable systems officer Nathan Fabian commented: "Strong stewardship is needed now more than ever to fulfil fiduciary duties and ...

Fund selection risk a material issue

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
Investors face fund selection risk and a substantial disparity in performance when choosing sustainable investment strategies, especially when it comes to ESG exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The difference in annualised returns between ESG funds can be ...

Member accuses UniSuper of greenwashing

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... relation to certain holdings. The member believes UniSuper marketing two of its three responsible investment options as 'sustainable' places too much onus on individual members to investigate further how returns are generated in these portfolios. In ...

AXA IM releases engagement data

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... engagements with 503 entities in 2023, mainly in Europe and North America. The reported €480 bn AUM classified as ESG, sustainable or impact funds at the end of December 2023. 200 of the total engagements were conducted either at board or C-suite level. ...

Podcast: Timber talks - Cultivating natural capital with Sarah Clawson

THE GREENER WAY  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... investment, as well as best practice approach to generating returns while prioritising ESG principles. We discuss sustainable landscape management, carbon credits integrity, and First Nations engagement policy and philosophy. Sarah just completed a trip ...

BlackRock-Temasek closes at US$1.4 bn

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... their late-stage venture capital and growth private equity investment fund. The Decarbonization Partners Fund I, a Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) Article 9 fund, had a fundraising target of US$1 billion. Article 9 funds are products ...

Closing the Gap in First Nations investing

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... climate impacts including rural communities, Torres Strait Islander communities and the Pacific, Will Leak, Senior Sustainable Investment Analyst at Mercer said at the conference held in Sydney last week. In order to build trust through representation ...