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ASX companies boosting ESG staff, oversight: Perennial

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... burdened by that cost, but ISSB should hopefully standardize the reporting," O'Neill added. Perennial has engaged with portfolio companies through the years on the topic of ESG reporting and in general has advised companies that they should get ahead ...

Green bond investors left in the dark

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
Green bond investors find themselves navigating blind due to the lack of standardised emissions reporting methodologies, a specialist global asset manager has revealed. These impact bonds, designed to finance environmentally beneficial projects, also ...

Ninety One launches emerging market transition debt fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... to maximize real world impact, but also to deliver commercially attractive risk adjusted returns, said Matt Christ, portfolio manager for EMTD, Ninety One. "We're well positioned to lean into the secular growth tailwind created by the urgent need to ...

Growth in green bond issuance brings choice, challenges

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... that is not there yet. For example, if you look at the environmental side, if you are investing in a mainly green bond portfolio, say, you may invest in companies that are not there yet in the transition, and have perhaps a fairly high carbon footprint ...

Nature-related disclosures underway

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
Reporting on nature-related corporate disclosures with the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) is now underway, with the first 320 companies and financial institutions now taking part. The first cohort of adopters are taking steps ...

Forestry fund falls short of target

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... strategy platform." "Our investments team has built out a good pipeline of deals across the region to develop a diversified portfolio of sustainable forest plantation and conservation nature-based assets in Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos ...

Senior appointments at ag managers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... natural capital investment and advisory firm the Pollination Group. He takes up his new role in February. Impact Ag has a portfolio of more than $900 million of assets under management and advisory, deploying capital on behalf of global family office ...

BlackRock admits stakeholder pressure on ESG a risk

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
For the first time in its quarterly earnings report, BlackRock identified stakeholder pressure on ESG and AI as risk factors that may influence returns. In its earnings release published on Friday, the firm warned that "increasing focus from stakeholders ...

Ethical ETFs AUM surges in 2023: Betashares

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 16 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
Funds under management for ethical, responsible and sustainability-themed ETFs surged by more than 24% during 2023, amid a strong year for ETFs broadly. Betashares' latest Australian ETF Review calculates the local ETF industry at a total industry ...

BNP Paribas updates sustainability strategy

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 16 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... warming. As a founding signatory to the Net Zero Banking Alliance, the firm previously stated it plans to align its portfolio with the Paris Agreement to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. FS Sustainability reached ...