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Podcast: Greening Australia's Economy with ASFI's Kristy Graham

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2022  |  NEWS
... Australians; and building sustainable finance markets. ASFI is currently working on developing a sustainable finance taxonomy for Australia to help drive further investment and capital allocation towards greening Australia's economy. FS Sustainability ...

Cbus quits Net Zero Asset Owners Alliance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2022  |  NEWS
... Kristian Fok is acting chair and director of ASFI, while head of responsible investment Ros McKay is a member of the ASFI Taxonomy Steering Committee. Cbus was the first Australian investor to join NZAOA. NZAOA recently issued a statement calling on ...

Cbus names new head of responsible investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2022  |  NEWS
... Victorian Funds Management Corporation (VFMC). She is a member of the Australian Sustainable Finance Institute (ASFI) Taxonomy Steering Committee, chairs the ACSI Rights and Cultural Heritage Risk Management working group and is a member of the AICD's ...

RBA warns of climate-related liability risk for business

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... Assessment (CVA) conducted by APRA on banks, increased disclosures and taxonomies and sustainable finance. "Having a taxonomy that is well-developed and widely accepted is important for a number of reasons," Kearns said. "A taxonomy will assist those ...

ESG product definitions a matter for legislation: ASIC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... of the Australian Sustainability Finance Institute's (ASFI) process to develop an industry-led sustainable finance taxonomy. "ASIC have been observers [of ASFI] and we continue to be so at the moment, together with some of the other [Council of Financial ...

EY partners to deliver Australian sustainable finance taxonomy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2022  |  NEWS
... Institute (ASFI) has appointed EY as the project team that will deliver the first stage of the Australian Sustainable Finance Taxonomy Project. EY will work with the Project Steering Committee and the Technical Advisory Group on the first phase, which ...

Rainmaker reveals ESG super fund leaders

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
... year that Rainmaker has assessed the super fund sector for its ESG qualities, via the 2022 Rainmaker ESG Superannuation Taxonomy Study. Rainmaker calculates that ESG super funds oversee $1.8 trillion being 71% of Australia's market for institutional ...

Industry reacts to ASIC greenwashing guidance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
... products in the US. "I think that they're waiting or some of these global norms to develop," Parker said. "We have the taxonomy project that [the Australian Sustainable Finance Initiative] ASFI is working on at the month, which is very much industry-focused ...

Building real asset future with climate in mind: AXA IM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2022  |  NEWS
... by putting them into bucks labelled green, blue or red Travalos said. "Green assets are [Climate Bond Initiative] CBI taxonomy aligned, and are effectively aligned with the 2 degree future," he said. "We have blue infrastructure which is an incomplete ...

UBS hires ESG specialist

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2022  |  NEWS
... (APLMA)'s Green Loan Principles as well as how the assets fit under the Climate Bond Initiative standards and the EU Green taxonomy