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Ethinvest reaches $100 million milestone

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... Ethinvest has hit $100 million in assets on the platform, after launching on HUB24 in late 2016. The ethical and impact investment advisory practice now reaps the rewards of strong investment performance and client inflows. Its three levels of managed ...

Social-washing hides lapse in progress

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 17 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... crucial role in achieving SDGs by leveraging the power of capital markets, says the nation's peak body for impact investment. The SDG framework is increasingly being used by financial professionals as a useful blueprint for investors to measure investment ...

BNP Paribas shutters EARTH Trust

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 14 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... Australian investors in September 2021, on the back of growing demand for "quality sustainable, ethical and impact investment products." At the time, BNP Paribas said the trust offered "a market first - an environmentally focused market-neutral strategy ...

Green jobs: Impactable, Ortec, Goldman Sachs, Compliance

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 3 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... strategic initiatives. He's now global head of distribution at the firm that looks to bring institutional capital to impact investment opportunities in emerging markets. This follows a short hiatus where he took time off work, and a recent chair position ...

S&P Global gains top sustainability expert

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... Environmental Investment Organisation. Currently, she is a director of Impact Alpha Partners - a recently established impact investment research and consulting firm. Founded by former State Super equities lead Andrew Huang 11 months ago, IAP's mission ...

Gender lens investing to receive $1.5bn injection

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... sustainable development goals (SDGs) last month, which was attended by several Indonesian government agencies, the Impact Investment Exchange (IIX) and the Ford Foundation. The proposed Orange bonds aim to support women-focused enterprises with micro ...

Rest awards private equity mandate to TowerBrook Capital

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... with a secondary aim of generating social and or environmental return. This is Rest's second private equity impact investment, following its commitment to a pooled buyout fund run by European private equity firm ARCHIMED last year.

Future Super returns 10.1% to ethically minded members

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... take a long-term view on the inevitability of the transition away from fossil fuels." Further, because of its impact investment mandate, the fund is also typically overweight private credit and clean energy infrastructure, which Davis believes will serve ...

Climate Change Authority appoints new chair

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... member Matt Kean will take over as the new Climate Change Authority (CCA) chair in August, with the founder of an impact investment firm named a new member. This comes amid ongoing debate around the efficacy of nuclear energy, with Kean stating the renewable ...

MLC Life sustainability manager joins impact firm

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2024  |  NEWS
Sustainability and impact investment expert Désirée Lucchese has joined the board of a newly formed impact research and consulting firm as a non-executive director. Impact Alpha Partners (IAP), founded in 2023, sought Lucchese's expertise spanning ...