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Low carbon ETF launches on SGX

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2022  |  NEWS
... The index has achieved an average of 50 per cent reduction in weighted average carbon intensity (WACI) compared to a standard cap-weighted index, SGX Securities noted. The WACI metric rewards carbon-efficient processes, irrespective of companies' size ...

Ethinvest opens Canberra office with industry heavyweight

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2022  |  NEWS
Ethical investment advisory firm Ethinvest has a new office in Canberra as adviser Dave Rae joins the firm. Rae joins Ethinvest from Federated Financial Services. "I'd estimate that at the moment, probably 80% or higher of my clients are in some way ...

HESTA confirms bid for Ramsay Health Care

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2022  |  NEWS
Industry super fund HESTA has announced it is part of a consortium led by KKR to acquire Ramsay Health Care. At the time of writing, Ramsay Health Care's share price rose 2.45% following the HESTA announcement. HESTA chief executive Debby Blakey ...

Redpoint poaches PMs from ART

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2022  |  NEWS
Redpoint Investment Management has poached from Australian Retirement Trust (ART) to augment its impact investing capability. Hunter Page and Chris Parks join Redpoint as portfolio managers. At ART, Page was responsible for managing the socially responsible ...

Biodiversity risk goes to heart of finance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2022  |  NEWS
Biodiversity is a quickly emerging risk and opportunity for investors and companies, but addressing the materiality of ecosystem and dependencies is complex and goes to the heart of finance, according to a panel of experts. There is a clear drive to ...

Igneo sets 2023 climate targets for infrastructure companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2022  |  NEWS
... Infrastructure Partners is derived from the word 'igneous', a type of volcanic rock, sister publication Financial Standard reported. Speaking at a recent briefing, Igneo director, ESG Sophie Durham noted that the strategy is called Climate Action ...

Building real asset future with climate in mind: AXA IM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2022  |  NEWS
Understanding of climate change's impact on real estate and infrastructure assets has become more sophisticated, shifting from merely meeting regulatory standards to shaping future demand for real assets, according to AXA IM Real Assets. Considerations ...

Christian Super, Australian Ethical to explore merger

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2022  |  NEWS
... to working together to shape a shared future for combined member benefit." As reported in sister publication Financial Standard in early December, Christian Super's "persistent underperformance" saw APRA tell the fund it must merge by 31 July 2022. ...

ISSB launches draft sustainability disclosure standards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2022  |  NEWS
... US-centric, if you like. They refer to specific pieces of US legislation, and because we're now writing an international standard, we've gone through and internationalised the metrics and references so they're not referring specifically to ...

UBS hires ESG specialist

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2022  |  NEWS
UBS has recruited Camille Wynter as head of Australian ESG Research. Wynter - who has more than ten years' experience in sustainable finance - joins the investment banker from the Commonwealth Bank where she was director of sustainable finance. ...