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Victorian social housing commitment potential opportunity for impact investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... this is where NAB is getting involved. That involves putting in all the types of capital that are needed to create big, scale deals that create the amount of affordable housing you need, which is a significant amount." Leanne Bloch-Jorgensen, head of ...

Companies pledge 100% renewable energy by 2025

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... include BINGO's fuel consumption and fleet of collections vehicles, the company announced. "As a business that operates large scale industrial facilities, BINGO has a great opportunity to reduce our emissions through moving to renewables across our recycling ...

Real asset investments as vehicle for return, positive impact

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... and is designed to capture attractive investment opportunities in renewable energy technologies, with a focus on utility-scale and distributed generation, solar, wind, and storage. "There is an unstoppable market force driving markets toward cleaner ...

BetaShares to launch ethical diversified ETFs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... making it more convenient for investors, it's also less expensive." The reduction in fees is partially due to economies of scale and partially due to the fact that the diversified ethical ETFs will use the existing ethical ETF range as part of the asset ...

Link between post-bushfire regeneration and impact investing: WWF-Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... affected by the bushfires in late 2019 and 2020. The program is unusual in that it uses impact funding structures to try and scale up innovation, said Reece Proudfoot, head of innovation and impact investment - WWF Australia. "At a macro level, the blow ...

Assessing the costs, opportunities to green hydrogen

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... EUR80-100/tonne by 2030. "That will start attracting the private capital that will be needed and start to achieve the economies of scale which will allow you to drive down the cost of green carbon," he said. "At some point, you're in firing range of ...

QBE makes allocation to impact investment fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... in enterprises working to improve the lives of vulnerable children. We are all about helping entrepreneurs and start-ups scale faster. Investors were attracted to the fund's ability to source investment opportunities from within its global network ...

Three lessons when assessing ESG risks

JOSHUA KENDALL  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... different assessments (lower percentile suggests higher risk; ESG rating 1 is the highest rating and 5 the lowest on our scale): - Provider 1: Wirecard was 54th percentile in its coverage universe (ESG rating 3) - Provider 2: Wirecard was 82nd percentile ...

Opinion: Australian super funds could benefit from US ESG policy move

RAEWYN WILLIAMS  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... change cause that sits uncomfortably with the regulator's unrelenting pressure to strip fees out of funds and return a "scale dividend" to members. In the US, the DOL's proposal is another reminder of the stakes involved in who wins the November 2020 ...

ARENA, CEFC changes open door to CCS, hydrogen investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... private and public sector investment and has helped improve the competitiveness of renewable energy technologies such as large scale solar, grid scale batteries, pumped hydro, bioenergy, distributed energy technologies and hydrogen. Expanding the mandate ...