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Green bond investors left in the dark

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... investors find themselves navigating blind due to the lack of standardised emissions reporting methodologies, a specialist global asset manager has revealed. These impact bonds, designed to finance environmentally beneficial projects, also suffer from ...

Aussie investors prepare for new EU rules

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... laws being adopted as the standard setter globally, and in this way this directive will influence the development of new global norms around remedy and due diligence," Samarakoon said. She said RIAA is working with the Australian government to try and ...

Investors push for nature in climate plans

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 6 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... and bridging conceptual gaps. "Climate change... surpasses land use change as a threat to nature," O'Grady said. "Half of global GDP is moderately or highly dependent on nature." "It's one thing to measure, and it's another thing to act on it... Does ...

Rise in ESG commitment by global funds: Morningstar

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... managers as ESG integration practices, resources, and active ownership activities can vary significantly," said Hortense Bioy, global director of sustainability research, Morningstar. "Many firms have improved their practices over the past couple of ...

Ninety One launches emerging market transition debt fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
Global investment manager Ninety One has launched an emerging market debt strategy that will focus on investing in company issuance that finances the transition to a lower carbon economy. The Emerging Market Transition Debt (EMTD) will aim to provide ...

Growth in green bond issuance brings choice, challenges

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... issuance since the 2021 peak of more than USD$1 trillion of issuance has lagged, but that "reflects an overall stagnation in global bond issuance," and noted that the GSS+ sector has "consistently represented 13-17% of all issuance in 2021-3, up from ...

Hazardous chemicals a key challenge for investors

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... hazardous chemical production and its removal from the environment through innovative funding mechanisms such as green bonds. Global chemical production has doubled between 2000 and 2017, now underpins the functioning of modern manufacturing. A recent ...

ANZ sustainable fund flows buck global trend: Morningstar

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... with the assets as of Sept. 30, 2023, Morningstar said. Australia and New Zealand, Asia ex-Japan and Europe bucked the global trend with positive inflows - globally, "sustainable funds experienced net quarterly outflows for the first time on record in ...

BlueScope receives funding for lower emissions project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... understanding of the need to invest in preparation for rapidly changing technologies and decarbonisation trends in the global economy. But more ambitious and targeted incentives are needed here to accelerate the pivot away from high-carbon intensity ...

Nature-related disclosures underway

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... address nature-related risks and opportunities, and its appetite for ambitious action in implementing the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and halting and reversing biodiversity loss. Meanwhile in December, EFRAG and the Taskforce on Nature-related ...