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COP fails to bridge yawning funding gap

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... that oil and gas is a "gift from god", and lobbyists of controversial carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology outnumber core national delegations, the Guardian and BBC reported. Negotiators are struggling to reach an agreement on financing. The Taskforce ...

Australia among the leaders in lowering carbon emissions

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... said Alison George, head of impact & ethics at Australian Ethical. On land use, George said combatting deforestation is a core focus of the fund manager's ethical stewardship engagement activity. In March last year, they sold their shares in Lendlease ...

Green Moves: NorthStar Impact, Aboriginal Investment NT, Care Super

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... narrative beyond 2030," said van der Heide. "I failed to see this absence of evidence for [the target] aligned with Shell's core values." "Not meeting this target, as a company and as global society, will have significant and sever consequences for ...

Betashares launches first ethical bonds ETF

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... risk-adjusted income potential rather than a debt-weighted indexing approach. CEO Alex Vynokur says the ETF "represents a core portfolio building block for ethically minded Australian investors and their advisers seeking an intelligent fixed income allocation ...

Australian Retirement Trust hires impact PMs

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... developing strategic priorities for the funds management business and managing the first Child-Lens Impact Investment Fund. At its core, this is an emerging field of asset management where investors check how their portfolio investments affect the lives ...

UN PRI bolsters APAC expertise

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 14 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... policy environment for our signatories," Osaki said in a public statement. He will also be based in Sydney, working with core APAC markets in Australia, China and Japan. Osaki previously worked at EY. UN PRI is currently seeking to bolster its labour ...

Asset owners embrace sustainable investment

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... investment strategies. Larger asset owners managing over US$10 billion are leading the way on integrating sustainability as core to their total investment strategy, at 86%. While implementation dipped at smaller asset owners, FTSE Russell does not believe ...

Blockchain for carbon credits: Northern Trust

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... trading, pricing and custody to reporting. Leveraging blockchain technology, Northern Trust Matrix Zenith integrates with our core traditional asset servicing infrastructure to support digital and traditional assets side-by-side."

Green Moves: Aus Ethical, S&P, Zevero, Pangolin

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
Australian Ethical's ex investment director has a new role, as sustainability intelligence and carbon accounting firms firm up their APAC leadership. Angus Dennis, former investment director at Australian Ethical Investment, has been hired as a subject ...

Schroders quietly backpedals on carbon

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... issuing a disclaimer on ESG. The active investment manager dropped the word 'Sustainable' from its Schroder Sustainable Global Core Fund; the fund will now be named the Schroder Global Core Fund. The Global Core Fund's carbon intensity goal was also ...