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CBA announces $250 in green financing deals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2021  |  NEWS
... finance vehicles. IFM Investors has entered into a $200 million fixed-rate, Environmental, Social and Governance Term Deposit (ESG TD) with CBA. It is certified by an independent third party and used entirely for funding loans designed to drive sustainable ...

SSGA hires from CareSuper for APAC ESG role

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2021  |  NEWS
State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) has created the new role of ESG investment strategist for Asia Pacific and hired a CareSuper specialist to fill it. In the new role, Xinting Jia report globally to Karen Wong, global head of ESG and Sustainable Investing ...

Evolution Mining commits to net zero

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 13 DEC 2021  |  NEWS
... sustainability strategy consolidates on previous years' work, said Kaushik Sridhar group manager - social responsibility and ESG reporting, Evolution Mining. "In FY21, the sustainability strategy was further enhanced through a formal and independent ...

Strong return for ESG funds, but oil ETF shines

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2021  |  NEWS
The median ESG managed fund has returned 27.8% in the 12 months to the end of October, but the strong performance of the ESG sector is dwarfed by the performance of the top performing product - a crude oil index ETF that returned 132% in that same time ...

Bringing a human rights lens to climate risk considerations

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2021  |  NEWS
... have environmental impacts and then we have impacts on people becomes a false dichotomy. In the way that we've set up the ESG conversation, we've been looking at things in quite siloed ways. That has advanced the environmental conversation with the social ...

COP26 outcomes means increased focus on physical risk: PGIM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2021  |  NEWS
... investors need to prepare for a range of future outcomes when it comes to further climate change, said John Ploeg, vice president, ESG specialist at PGIM Fixed Income. "We need to prepare for all cases," Ploeg said. "That's really important, because ...

Vontobel to assess biodiversity impacts of portfolio investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2021  |  NEWS
... a lay of the land of where the impacts are, by sector and by company, which wasn't visible before," said Vontobel head of ESG and thought leadership Sudhir Roc-Sennett. The results of the analysis will inform engagement activity with portfolio companies ...

Tracking sustainability as quantitative strategy: SSGA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2021  |  NEWS
... (SSGA). SSGA recently published research explaining how their Active Quantitative Equity (AQE) team evaluates companies on ESG characteristics, which they believe can be considered a proxy for long-term forward planning and thinking in companies, and ...

ESG overhaul for SSGA ETFs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2021  |  NEWS
State Street Global Advisors will Australian investors access to two ESG-focused ETFs beginning next year. From February 2022, the SPDR Dow Jones Global Real Estate Fund (DJRE), the SPDR S&P World ex Australia Fund (WXOZ), the SPDR S&P World ex Australia ...

Super funds that invest responsibly draw market share: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2021  |  NEWS
... with 54% of funds reporting conducting direct engagement. Leading responsible investment super funds also employ a team of ESG/responsible investment staff, which allows them to deliver responsible investment in a more systematic manner than non-leaders ...