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BlackRock's Evergreen Infrastructure fund scores US$1bn

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 21 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... consistent long-term cash yield, and resilient inflation-linked, fully contracted returns for investors. It invests in a portfolio of diversified core infrastructure businesses in Europe and North America. The first investment is in Lighthouse, a US ...

Corporate net zero plans at odds with anti-climate lobbying

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
Despite widespread corporate commitments to net zero, a significant proportion of global companies engage in lobbying that contradicts their stated environmental goals. While almost all US companies target net zero, most are weakly aligned to their ...

Macquarie opens clean energy arm

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... develop and operate utility-scale wind, solar and integrated batteries across Australian and New Zealand. With an initial portfolio of 4 GW of projects in Australia, the business will develop clean energy projects across New South Wales, Victoria, South ...

Warakirri launches Sustainability Broadacre Cropping Strategy

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... vehicle with a target AUM of $1 billion. The Sustainability Broadacre Cropping Strategy will own and operate a diversified portfolio of investment-grade, broadacre cropping and infrastructure assets across Australia. The strategy aims to deliver strong ...

ANZ in court over climate and nature risk failure

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... of care and diligence. "This means that, despite a commitment by ANZ in that report that it is aligning its lending portfolio with the goals of the Paris Agreement, it might not have adequate structures in place to do that," Holgersson added. "I'm ...

Australian Ethical backs infrastructure debt funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... there is to grow that fund and already financed/contributed to the financing of one wind farm in Queensland and also a portfolio of wind and solar assets that will close in the next month or so. "Our definition of social infrastructure is mainly PPPs ...

Deutsche Bank finances Taiwan's largest offshore wind farm

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... lead construction and operation. It is Northland's first offshore wind project in Asia, and the fifth in its global portfolio. The power producer made its first move in offshore wind a decade ago with the 600 MW Gemini project in the Netherlands, for ...

"Looming" governance gap as reporting becomes mandatory

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... regulatory risks regarding fast-moving and complex ESG standards and terminology. While most finance executives, lending and portfolio managers, are now regularly being assessed on ESG-linked non-financial key performance indicators (KPIs), firms are ...

Assessing companies ability to make the low carbon transition

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
Investors need to be able to assess companies and countries on their ability to manage the transition to a lower-carbon economy using a range of backward and forward-looking metrics. There is a lack of global standards and definitions around climate ...

Impact investing as greenwashing antidote: T. Rowe Price

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... move towards focusing on companies' products and services." The Global Impact Strategy holds 93 companies in the portfolio and because it excludes fossil fuel companies and most materials companies, it has underperformed wider indices, but Balkrishna ...