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MUFG Bank structures $333 million green financing deal

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 29 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... assurance for the green loan. The loan also received CBI certification from Climate Bonds Initiative under the Climate Bonds Standard, which marks it as the first CBI certified loan from India. MUFG has committed to a total of JPY20 trillion (USD$88 ...

CSC partners with Osmosis IM on sustainable strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 22 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation is partnering with Osmosis Investment Management to launch an environmentally sustainable equity strategy. CSC, the $50 billion fund for government employees, will partner with Osmosis to launch a Resource Efficient ...

Stakeholders mull impact of Rio Tinto report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... and the aspiration of FPIC." Further, some companies interpret the "C" in FPIC to mean compliance, George said. "The standard of agreement is whatever the law specifies, and that is much less than the aspiration of intent in Australia and in most places." ...

Green loans to finance light rail, battery storage

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... Canberra Metro is owned by a consortium including John Holland, Pacific Partnerships (a member of the CIMIC Group), Aberdeen Standard Investments and Mitsubishi Corporation. Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) head of infrastructure investment and asset ...

Super fund shuffles team, investment chief steps down

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... in ethical investments and is on the board of the Responsible Investment Association of Australasia (RIAA). Financial Standard profiled McLeod this year in its annual FS Managed Accounts journal publication. Barlow-Bolt joins from Australian Unity where ...

Industry considers Australian sustainable finance taxonomy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... on establishing definitions and agreeing the targets and scanning the investible universe. If you had, for instance, a standard definition on what an impact investment fund was, then when your clients say I want to do impact investing, you would connect ...

Vellum Funds Management builds property with NDIS units

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... Australia, mainland China and Hong Kong. BTR is a growing sector in Australia. As reported in sister publication Financial Standard, build-to-rent developer Assemble announced a newly formed board with former HESTA chair Angela Emslie appointed as independent ...

ESG funds continue strong performance: Rainmaker

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... assessment model as way to integrated risk measures into a unified score by analysing investment returns, volatility and other standard risk measures, and to use those results to tell a coherent story about an investment product. Using RMetrics, the ...

The future is now: the future of sustainable investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
As this most unusual year draws to a close, this roundtable presented a unique opportunity to gather a panel of experts from a diverse range of backgrounds - asset owners, asset managers, consultants and industry bodies - to discuss how sustainable ...

International sustainability accounting standards bodies to merge

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... benefiting other key stakeholders." CPA Australia welcomed the announcement. "The merger brings together two of the leading standard setters on comprehensive corporate reporting," said Jane Rennie, general manager external affairs, CPA Australia. "It ...