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PE, VC vehicles to drive sustainable investment pipeline

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
Private equity and venture capital are increasingly seen as asset classes where social and environmental impacts as well as financial return can be scaled up, according to a panel of fund managers. Speaking at the recent Responsible Investment Association ...

Seeking financial, positive impact in SME investments: Beckon Capital

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... Goldman Sachs and Bankers Trust, are also developing the reporting and management of positive social and environmental impacts of businesses in the SME space, a sector of the economy that has less data available. "What we wanted to do was find relatively ...

Sharp increase in food waste: Rabobank Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... impact on the environment. A smaller group is concerned with the connection between food waste and wider environmental impacts such as climate change (24%), the loss of animals / extinction (21%), water shortages (16%) and pollution (12%). The report ...

Real asset investments as vehicle for return, positive impact

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
Investing in real assets that have positive social and/or environmental impacts means investors gain more than a source of return that is non-correlated to other asset classes. During a recent webinar sponsored by Channel Capital, Matthew Tominc, CIO ...

Climate Bond Standard launches shipping criteria for bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... science-based investment pathway for capex to be applied in this sector and delivers a range of positive environmental impacts." The shipping criteria were developed via a technical working group process with Tristan Smith and Sophie Parker of University ...

Credit strategy links financial return to social, environmental impact

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
As investor demand for funds that demonstrate positive social and environmental impacts as well as financial returns increase, a recently launched impact credit strategy managed by Regnan is outperforming its benchmark. In late January of this year ...

IIG launches alternative fund-of funds impact strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... million fund of funds impact investment fund aimed at providing income yield, return and positive social and environmental impacts. The Impact Alternatives Fund will include a mix of investments covering renewable energy infrastructure such as large ...

HESTA issues Statement on Working with Indigenous Communities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... Statement on Working with Indigenous Communities is HESTA's latest announcement covering material social and environmental impacts. In June, the industry superannuation fund announced a plan to reduce the absolute carbon emissions in its investment ...

ESG integration "crucial" to credit investments: Janus Henderson

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... social exposures, but governance is a baseline for all. "While every company has a different focus regarding environmental impacts or social impacts, every company has a broad senior management team, and a strategy they're trying to implement," Kopczynski ...

Data enhances case for ESG as separate, interrelated factor to quality

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... while avoiding those who aren't prioritising these factors. Asset light companies tend to have lower environmental impacts, Carmichael said, but social factors can impact more strongly. "On the social side, your ability to be effectively a good corporate ...

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Santos receives takeover offer from Abu Dhabi-led consortium

ANDREW MCKEAN
Santos has received a non-binding $8.89 per share cash offer from the XRG Consortium, led by XRG P.J.S.C., a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ANDOC), alongside Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund ADQ and US private equity firm Carlyle.

What do the best-functioning boards look like?

KARREN VERGARA
The best-functioning boards are future thinkers, understand their ESG responsibilities and are able to show their "battle scars," according to two governance experts.

Funding lifts for climate, health, people startups

KARREN VERGARA
While funding for impact startups has broadly declined, those operating in climate, health and people has seen funding levels improve compared to three years ago, according to the Impact Startups Benchmark Report 2025.

Mind the gap: Investors' role in balancing fairness and competitiveness in executive pay

ALEXANDRE PROST
Investors have a significant role to play in helping to move the dial on executive remuneration, aiming to increase fairness and reduce inequality.

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