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Turning PV waste into investment opportunity

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... misses a payment or defaults. It is designed to help provide investors with ongoing protection against borrower late payments or loan defaults. Terence Jeyaretnam, EY APAC leader and partner in the climate change and sustainability services team, said ...

Defining financial, wellbeing impacts in housing: Kayne Anderson

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... as well. Nunnink noted that less than 10% of the 44 million renters in the U.S. benefit from having their on-time rent payments reported to the credit bureaus. In the U.S., credit scores are widely utilized - to determine access to credit, interest rates ...

Financial inclusion as risk and opportunity: Principal Financial Group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2022  |  NEWS
... terms of benefits packages for employees, including insurance, pensions, training. How people advance in terms of digital payments and how many people have access to bank accounts. You need to go more granular in terms of a countries perspective to understand ...

Climate change a macro trend, driving secular themes: J. P. Morgan Asset Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
... underprice a number of technology themes such as the adoption of cloud computing, digital transformation and electronic payments. "Meanwhile, we see a number of themes related to the growth of the middle class consumer in emerging markets, such as the ...

Alphinity launches SDG-aligned fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... management of ESG issues such as breaching human rights principles, unnecessary pollution or avoiding a fair share of tax payments. Alphinity uses ESG research provider, MSCI for their ESG ratings. Alphinity also uses a Sustainable Compliance Committee ...

ASX200 CEO pay drops to lowest levels in more than decade: ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... decade ago, in the shadows of the Global Financial Crisis, executives were being rewarded with bonuses and termination payments which were in direct contrast to the negative financial outcomes many companies were delivering to shareholders. "Since then ...

Assessing buy now pay later sector through an ESG lens

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... by Afterpay, BrightePay, Humm, Openpay, Payright and Zip Pay. The review found that one in five consumers are missing payments. In the 2018-19 financial year, missed payment fee revenue for all BNPL providers in the review totalled over $43 million ...

S&P Dow Jones launches new ESG indices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2021  |  NEWS
... that meet specific ESG criteria and have followed a managed-dividends policy for a specified number of years. "Dividend payments are often viewed as an important barometer of companies' financial health and outlooks," says Aye Soe, global head of product ...

Three lessons when assessing ESG risks

JOSHUA KENDALL  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
Wirecard, the German payments company, filed for insolvency on 25 June 2020 after the group revealed over-indebtedness and reported incidences of fraud. Having issued an investment grade bond in September 2019 at a yield of around 0.5%, in less than ...

ASX-listed mining, gas and oil companies lack tax transparency: PWYP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
ASX-listed mining, gas and oil companies are "falling behind key transparency measures" on disclosing payments to governments in countries in which they operate, according to new research from Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Australia. Robyn Parkin, sustainability ...