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First State Super joins global call for SDG focus to post-COVID recovery

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... The GSID statement outlined future action for members including urging the broader business sector to better integrate the SDGs into core business models; scaling up sustainable investments globally, "especially to countries and areas most in need" ...

Accounting bodies develop guidelines for disclosing to SDGs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... Accountants of Scotland (ICAS) have released a paper outlining recommendations on disclosing for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Professor Carol Adams The Sustainable Development Goal Disclosure (SDGD) Recommendations are designed to align ...

Aviva Investors identifies megatrends representing market failures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... trading schemes. This improves the incentives and aligns them with long term sustainable development." The 17 goals of the SDGs are the result of market failures, Waygood noted. "In other words, the UN would not need to work on them as problems if the ...

Collaboration a competitive advantage for super on ESG: NGS Super

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... provide live disclosure of proxy voting as well as mapping their equities portfolio against the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), King said. "That was a really interesting exercise," she said. "We did it in-house with some talented analysts, and ...

Pioneer issuance puts COVID-19 bonds on investment agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... frameworks that could be tailored to suit. "As a bank, we have a green bond program which we've supplemented to embed the SDGs," Jenkins said. "We have previously issued a social bond - the 2017 Gender Equality bond - and we expanded that program to ...

Advisers discuss new era of advice, ethical considerations: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... I think that on top of that, the global trend in that most of the governments around the world have signed on to meet the SDGs, which has led a push towards sustainable finance." Brown also cited the EU Action Plan, noting "we have all these things at ...

Vietnam a source of green infrastructure projects, pipeline: CBI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... measures are now inextricably linked to infrastructure planning and development including national economic development and the SDGs," said Sean Kidney, chief executive officer, Climate Bonds Initiative. "This critical relationship is increasingly being ...

Q&A: Pablo Berrutti, on the launch of the Altiorem research platform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... taxonomy for classifying research going grown and changed as it's been applied? Pablo : We have four standards (GRI, SASB, the SDGs and Climate Bonds Initiate), and we developed our own aggregation of those and every single article is tagged with our ...

The role of finance has never been more important: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... been more important in shaping the global economic response to global issues captured by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), climate change, and the coronavirus crisis. The Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) held a virtual conference ...

Emerging markets present opportunities for impact investing: 57 Stars

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... transaction. "One of the benefits of latest catalogue of IRIS is that the metrics align with the [Sustainable Development Goals] SDGs," Balit said. "A lot of the folks we're talking to are interested in understanding how their investments are aligned ...