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Rest increases impact investment with Cibus fund allocation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... investment and sustainability Leilani Weier. "As a super fund representing one in five young Australians, we believe impact investing represents a powerful opportunity for us to grow our members' super, while helping to build a more sustainable future," ...

BNP Paribas updates sustainability strategy

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 16 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... Sustainable Finance and Investment, mobilise capital for sustainable solutions, invest in emerging markets, and enhance impact investing strategies. It has also committed to reducing its exposure to oil and gas in line with 2°C of warming. As a founding ...

UN-informed tool to assess SDG progress

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... towards sustainable assets by assessing alignment of private sector activity with the SDGs. According to the Global Impact Investing Network, the market for impact investing surpassed US$1 trillion in assets worldwide in 2021. Yet according to UN Sustainable ...

New tools available to help investors meet Paris Agreement

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 17 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... of new tools have been released from organisations including Moody's Investors Service, ISS STOXX, Global Impact Investing Network, UN-convened Principles for Responsible Investment, Bloomberg and Riskthinking.AI. Moody's releases framework for ...

PRI, CFA Institute and GSIA agree to common RI definitions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... beneficiaries, including the common economic, social and environmental assets on which their interests depend. Impact investing: investing with the intention to generate a positive, measurable social and/or environmental impact alongside a financial ...

Impact investing as greenwashing antidote: T. Rowe Price

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
Building portfolios around metrics such as direct revenue with real world social and/or environmental impact may be a solution to greenwashing, according to T. Rowe Price. Recently, T. Rowe Price global impact equity strategy Hari Balkrishna was in ...

Engaging for real-world decarbonisation: IGCC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 21 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... helpful, because what they do is they give us a common language," said Neuberger Berman global head of ESG and impact investing Jonathan Bailey. "We found that having these frameworks really helps get people to a common baseline. Then you can talk about ...

Ethical investments recover performance: Chant West

ROSE MARY PETRASS, RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... traditional products," he said. Ethical funds - those that combine negative and positive screening - align closely with impact investing. Traditionally, ethical funds were rare and struggled to gain traction due to the perception they might not offer ...

UniSuper invests with NorthStar Impact

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
... impact investors in listed equities since the beginning of 2017 and I think it shows the growing interest in impact investing and for UniSuper, expanding the range of options within their sustainable balanced and sustainable growth portfolios," he said. ...

Does ESG have a fiduciary problem?

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
... of ESG research at Preqin said. Despite Europe's and North America's dominance in ESG fundraising and impact investing respectively, the term has been a point of contention with BlackRock CEO Larry Fink in June calling the acronym "totally weaponised". ...