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Green bond boom, but investors look to value proposition

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... become the primary currency for sustainable financing in 2021." "It's fair to say that Europe has been more focused on ESG and sustainability over recent years, but the US market is catching up and we're seeing an increase in interest in ESG ...

Consultant launches responsible investment index for manager selection

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
An independent investment consultant has designed a responsible investment index that assesses fund managers on their ESG-related activities and found that many funds are doing ESG-related work without being categorised as such. Evergreen Consultants ...

ASX companies under the spotlight for global investor engagement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... boards were having to meet on a weekly if not daily basis - that whole issue of over boarding can bring itself out." Many ESG issues are correlated and interrelated, and companies that out-perform tend to have an articulated strategy around purpose ...

$150 million impact fund to target small companies for investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... labelled a type of philanthropy. Impact 2.0 is considering profit and impact in tandem, and he linked it to the development of ESG as a global integration strategy with reporting requirements around environmental and social sustainability. The industry ...

Global fund manager launches local climate transition fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... green revenues, either through direct service provision or through internal company operations. "We work with our underlying ESG providers to focus on the green revenues side to establish the proportion of exposure to green revenues, the percentage derived ...

Global digitalisation impacting environmental, social factors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... five year time horizon, but underpriced based on the firm's assessment of its business operations, including its approach to ESG factors. "Everything starts with consideration of the environmental and social megatrends - climate change and resource constraints ...

What's in a name: evaluating the goals behind net zero targets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... real-world carbon reduction to make meaningful progress to containing climate change, said Brendan Baker, vice president and ESG climate specialist at MSCI. "When we look at this from a climate risk perspective, we're talking climate transition risk," ...

Westpac inks $350 million sustainability linked loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... functions. The finance functions are asking, how can I make that debt sustainable. Sustainable in both the financial as well as the ESG sense. "If you look at the G8 example, the KPIs are core to business, and those are also the issues that their investors ...

Diversity, human rights, climate change lead agenda: ASI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... framework for engagement and allocating which investors are taking the lead on which ASX200 companies," said Danielle Welsh-Rose, ESG Investment Director - Asia Pacific at ASI. "At this point, the focus is on companies that have lower levels of female ...

Industry fund sets bar higher with Net Zero timing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... billion NGS Super has set a target of carbon neutrality by 2030. The target builds off of the fund's existing work around ESG integration, including having previously screened out thermal coal, tobacco and controversial weapons, noted Ben Squires ...