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Blackstone and Vista to acquire energy market software

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... equity business Blackstone Energy Transition Partners, and investment firm Vista. With $101 billion in assets under management, Vista invests exclusively in enterprise software, data and technology-enabled organisations across private equity, permanent ...

Brookfield ups the ante on Origin by $1.2bn

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... both in the Origin bid and in the 2022 bid for AGL led by Mike Cannon-Brookes' Grok Ventures and Brookfield Asset Management. "All of this is predicated on the value of the retail customer base that Origin and AGL have," Buckley noted. "That customer ...

Climate change a risk to financial stability: RBA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... based technology and other services that banks and financial institutions and raise concerns about governance, risk management, platform concentration risk and responsiveness in crisis, and climate change. "Risks to financial stability resulting from ...

Nearly a quarter of Australian bank debt has nature-related risk

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... said. "There are also significant opportunities for banks which act now to establish strong approaches to nature risk management and work with their clients to deliver rich biodiversity outcomes for Australia." The Australian Conservation Foundation ...

ESG factors increasingly drive financial decisions

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... released its ninth-annual ESG Manager Survey, surveying 169 asset managers representing $20 trillion in assets under management. 75% of active managers have hired additional dedicated ESG personnel in the past year, as ESG is increasingly driving investment ...

Investors press Boral for clarity on net zero ambitions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... with the CEO around these changes," said Australian Ethical spokesperson Persephone Fraser. "We are also talking to management of the company and looping in the board to make sure the board is paying attention to this as well." The group says Boral is ...

Role for finance after No vote

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... Partners, said. "We can do a lot more in advance to mitigate these issues before they become a problem." Indigenous land management practices, also known as "caring for Country", preserve and benefit natural capital, said Joshua Gilbert, Worimi man and ...

Farm to table reporting to increase ag investment certainty

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... This engagement with post-farm businesses will enable AusLCI data to be integrated with downstream supply chain data management systems, enabling sustainability metrics integration into in-business uses. "The AusLCI update will position Australia to ...

Investors call for multilateral financial architecture overhaul

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... the United Arab Emirates, a member-led initiative of 86 institutional investors with US$9.6 trillion in assets under management reported a fall in total absolute financed greenhouse gas emissions. In its third annual progress report, the UN-Convened ...

How to build a climate-resilient business: Energetics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... interdependencies between mitigation and adaptation need to be better understood. An integrated approach to climate risk management that would enhance the value and credibility of an organisation's climate transition plan. Q: What are the key challenges ...