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PE, VC vehicles to drive sustainable investment pipeline

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
... assets in renewable energy generation, storage and technology. The group focuses on working in partnership with university research organisations to identify potential solutions to clean energy issues, and then provide VC-based seed funding to develop ...

Northern Trust AM names head of sustainable investing and stewardship

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
... stewardship, a newly created role. Moret will oversee the firm's sustainable investing and global engagement policies, foster research and product development agendas, advance portfolio integration across asset classes and contribute NTAM's perspectives ...

APAC investors ahead of North America on climate action: PGIM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
... why more European investors are taking action than North American investors," says David Klausner, director, thematic research, PGIM. "One thing that stuck out is the fact that regulatory regimes are quite different." Klausner pointed to the chilling ...

Trustees squeezed by competing climate risk pressures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
... role of proxy advisers are separately backed up by statements from Vas Kolesnikoff, head of Australia and New Zealand research at proxy adviser ISS. "The consultation seems to be premised on a misguided notion that proxy advisers do not operate transparently ...

Steep rise in demand for ESG wealth management products: EY

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2021  |  NEWS
... is an overall growth in "for purpose" investing in wealth management clients, according to the 2021 EY Global Wealth Research Report. EY surveyed 2,500 wealth management clients in 21 markets, including Australians, and found that a majority (76%) of ...

Rest launches Sustainable Growth option

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2021  |  NEWS
... with investment manager, Parametric, who are drawing on the expertise of global responsible investment leader, Calvert Research, to construct the Australian and Overseas equities portfolio of this new option," said Andrew Lill, chief investment officer ...

Using total portfolio management to gain China, ESG exposure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2021  |  NEWS
... risk factor in aggregate across the entire portfolio," says Liang Yin, director in Willis Towers Watson's investments research team and China project lead. "That increases the flexibility to spend the so-called sustainability budget across asset classes. ...

NZ climate disclosure legislation to affect Australian entities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2021  |  NEWS
... through our assessment of fund managers, engage regularly with management teams on climate issues and continue to undertake research on a range of climate-related topics such as water and resource efficiency," Arnold noted. "We have also developed a ...

ASX100 ESG underperformers in global manager's crosshairs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2021  |  NEWS
... engagements on human capital management in the US and UK, but is surveying Australian companies as part of its underlying research process, Colton said.

BlackRock hires former AMP Capital head to ESG role

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2021  |  NEWS
... led AMP Capital's specialist ESG public markets fund range and investment stewardship efforts, as well as its in-depth research, analysis and thought leadership on key ESG and sustainability related considerations. She also worked as AMP Capital's investment ...