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Glencore faces greenwashing allegations

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2022  |  NEWS
... may have on these matters. "Glencore's climate change strategy has been publicly communicated and covers our global portfolio of operations. "In Australia, Glencore is the largest producer of coal, cobalt and zinc and the second-largest producer of nickel ...

HESTA ups the ante on AGL, Santos on climate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2022  |  NEWS
... "HESTA is committed to using active ownership with emissions-intensive companies to help drive down emissions in the portfolio and manage climate risk." In 2021, HESTA introduced an engagement escalation framework for its work with emissions-intensive ...

Clear link between ESG performance and shareholder return: Federated Hermes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2022  |  NEWS
... whose standards are slipping, is a crucial way to capture the ESG premium," said Federated Hermes senior global equities portfolio manager Lewis Grant. Federated Hermes established in 2014 that poor performance on governance was linked to underperformance ...

No ESG drag seen in performance test results

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2022  |  NEWS
... on ESG investing is a topic of concern for the super fund sector, as integrating ESG investing into a superannuation portfolio can increase tracking error, raising concerns that ESG could lead super funds to negative outcome against the FFYS performance ...

Sustainable packaging sector set to grow: Nanuk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2022  |  NEWS
... sector is set for accelerating growth, according to Nanuk Asset Management. Around 10% of the Nanuk New World Fund's portfolio is invested in sustainable packaging-related opportunities, noted Nanuk portfolio manager Peter Wilmshurst. The New World Fund ...

Podcast: Democratising climate impact investing with Camille Socquet-Clerc

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... retail investors access to climate-related impact investments. Fintech Bloom Impact offers access to a diversified growth portfolio of assets that meet climate impact goals with a minimum investment of $500. We talk about designing to open climate impact ...

ASX300 upping the ante on ESG reporting: Melior

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... investing in companies that are more sustainable, there's an alpha benefit that generates outperformance." Melior's portfolio companies significantly outperform the wider ASX300 on a range of ESG metrics. "We want to invest on companies that are investing ...

BlackRock in $1bn capital commitment to battery storage

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... Akaysha has plans to add adjacent renewable energy opportunities - including developing green hydrogen assets - to its portfolio across multiple markets. BlackRock further cited statistics from Bloomberg New Energy Finance which project that "345GW of ...

Uncovering value in ESG improvers: Pengana

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... then as a report card, potentially, in their score." Amoils cited the example of ServiceNow as a company held in the portfolio that they engaged with over social issues. "ServiceNow is a hypergrowth software company where as a result of its very rapid ...

Does Canberra's agenda align with sustainable investment?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... investors have been looking at, working on and ben interested in from the material risk and opportunities it brings to the portfolio," Pettigrew said. "The way we're seeing the change of government is that it will shed more light on different areas that ...