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Podcast: Building a sustainable portfolio

THE GREENER WAY  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2025  |  NEWS
... successful. The discussion also highlights the growing role of tech in sustainable investments and the importance of addressing climate change for portfolio risk and opportunity.

Munro takes climate fund to New Zealand

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2025  |  NEWS
GSFM affiliate Munro Partners' Global Growth Climate Leaders Fund has entered the New Zealand market. The fund, which was spawned from the Munro Climate Change Leaders Fund, has been set up as a portfolio investment entity (PIE) for Kiwi wholesale ...

Trump presidency pushes Aussies to ethical super fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2025  |  NEWS
... and Bankstown (NSW). Since coming to power, the Trump administration has actively moved to scale back US involvement in climate change initiatives, and publicly derided diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, spurring many corporates to abandon ...

Green moves: Australian Ethical, HOPE Housing, IGCC

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2025  |  NEWS
... homeowners through co-investing up to 50% of the home's purchase price across 24 properties. Finally, the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) will farewell its managing director of policy and advocacy Erwin Jackson soon. Jackson, the first person ...

China issues inaugural sovereign green bonds

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2025  |  NEWS
... bonds market, encourage domestic issuer participants, and generate investment in the green financial markets. Meanwhile, Climate Bonds Initiative, the international organisation that promotes investment in projects and assets for low carbon and climate ...

Asset managers back new Avoided Emissions Platform

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2025  |  NEWS
... helped launch the Avoided Emissions Platform (AEP), a new tool that calculates avoided emissions to assess the impact of climate solutions. The Avoided Emissions Platform (AEP) models avoided emission factors for 65 climate solutions based on a transparent ...

Investors progress on climate, but barriers emerge

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2025  |  NEWS
A growing number of local investors are making progress on climate despite the anti-ESG sentiment simmering offshore. A fresh report from the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) found 65 of Australia's super funds, fund managers, and retail ...

Green moves: Challenger, AusBiotech

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2025  |  NEWS
... joined Challenger as a risk professional in 2016 but quickly moved into ESG covering the global regulatory landscape, climate risk and PRI reporting, O'Meara is also responsible for the firm's modern slavery statement and leads the modern slavery ...

New gig for Challenger's ESG specialist

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2025  |  NEWS
... joined Challenger as a risk professional in 2016 but quickly moved into ESG covering the global regulatory landscape, climate risk and PRI reporting, O'Meara is also responsible for the firm's modern slavery statement and leads the modern slavery ...

Link between remuneration and sustainability grows: KPMG

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... topics, while 17 have some alignment to material topics. Just two have no alignment to material topics. In Australia, climate change is the topic most likely to be a sustainability target linked to executive pay. This was followed by 'own workforce' ...