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Big money urged to leverage influence

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
Long-term asset owners are not putting their influence to use, according to a new study on the climate policy influence of the world's largest institutional investors. 73% of the asset owners, representing more than $12 trillion in assets, have ...

Readers act on news when it impacts returns

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... Co-authored by accounting professor Edward Watts, the paper found individual retail investors see ESG as an important tool for money-making. Watts, Qianqian Li, and Christina Zhu looked at investor behaviour around 54,000 ESG-related news events between ...

FX expert jumps from Insight to HSBC

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... multi-asset and fixed-income capabilities with investors, asset consultants and analysts. Ereira has had 25 years of experience in money and foreign exchange markets. Before joining Insight, he founded Cerca FX Consulting, where he spent two years advising ...

Investors dismiss US federal court case

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... BlackRock spokesperson told FS Sustainability the allegations are baseless. "The suggestion that BlackRock has invested money in companies with the goal of harming those companies is baseless and defies common sense. This lawsuit undermines Texas' ...

Back on the huddle, fund flows into clean energy

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
Physical climate risks could wipe out the lion's share of investor money into infrastructure assets by 2050, research shows, but there is a way to dodge a crisis, delegates heard. Day two of the IGCC summit kicked off with a brighter mood than the ...

Battery storage the next energy disruptor

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
The smart money on climate investment is in battery storage, predicts a panel of experts at the IGCC summit. The battery storage industry is developing in leaps and bounds: Companies are trialling new engineering reconfigurations to extract different ...

Making a splash: The economic impact of AUKUS

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... at the University of Queensland, told a recent Financial Standard podcast that Australia appears to be spending a lot of money without a clear strategic rationale or discussion from the government. "Will these submarines operate essentially under US ...

Mega recovery on cards for sustainable funds

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... backlash in the US. There is also a pervasive lack of clarity about what exactly ESG really means. However, shortsighted money managers may be missing a golden goose - Higgins already sees a rebound. "Investors tend to look in the rearview mirror a lot," ...

Social-washing hides lapse in progress

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 17 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... position, both economically and socially, and we have a responsibility to give back," said Price. "Frankly, we should put our money where our mouth is when it comes to donating our time and money." But while impact investing and philanthropy have similar ...

Ultra rich bet on green energy for data

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... and preserve capital for the future - but also to create values-driven impact. However, many still don't realise that money-making and positive impact can go hand in hand. "You can invest and have both the performance and the green impact - not one ...