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NSW Land Registry Services in $300m sustainability linked loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... custodians of NSW land and titling information, and trust is built on doing what's right both for our customers and for the social and environmental fabric that strengthens NSW and Australia," said NSW Land Registry Services CEO Adam Bennett. "Covid-19 ...

Greenwashing a challenge to sustainable investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... said. "To do this, we will assess companies across various measures based on over 700 academic and industry studies of social impacts and externalities." The tool will allow Schroders to measure a company's impact across 70 categories of data, and ...

Wealth managers under pressure on returns, ESG: Accenture

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... generators to being holistic stewards of capital, focusing on returns as just one of many metrics across the environmental, social and governance (ESG) spectrum. This same ethical compass shift will likely also become pervasive across the wider capital ...

Conscious Investment Management grows team

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... investment market more broadly, which is increasingly showing the power of financial capital to have a sustainable, positive social and environmental impact." Jordan has worked on transactions spanning public and private mergers and acquisitions, growth-equity ...

CEFC invests in specialist disability accommodation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... sustainable specialist disability housing means lower energy bills and more comfortable homes, improving financial, health and social outcomes for tenants, as well as reducing carbon emissions." Houses to be developed by the platform will target an average ...

Gender pay gaps "sabotage" diversity, profits: UniSA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... representation - different perspectives, women tend to be more risk averse than men, women are more willing to engage in corporate social responsibility activities." These positives help enhance shareholder return in listed companies. "But what we're ...

Forrest reiterates call for net zero target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... public campaign, which will focus on opportunities for consumers, investors and workers in the renewable energy sector, social researcher Rebecca Huntley presented findings on renewable energy gathered through focus group interactions noting that people ...

Census "a missed opportunity" on key questions: Diversity Council Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
The Australian Census is a "missed opportunity" in omitting questions relating to sexual orientation and gender identity, as well as options for identifying ethnic ancestry, according to the Diversity Council of Australia. "The Census is an incredibly ...

Fund manager sets gender diversity target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
First Sentier Investors has set a target of 40% women in investment teams by 2033. First Sentier Investors' announcement comes as it becomes an inaugural signatory to the Financial Services Council Women in Investment Management Charter (WIM Charter). ...

Bank launches sustainability-linked derivatives

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... instead of being earmarked to an asset along the lines of what we call a 'use of proceeds' product such as a green bond or social bond," said Tessa Dann, a director in ANZ's sustainable finance team. "The sustainability-linked derivative is linked to ...