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SGX hires head of sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... ING since 2017, she founded the Sustainable Finance Asia Pacific team, and spearheaded the firm's sustainability strategy and direction for the region. In three years, she established ING as a thought and action leader in the region, and facilitated ...

SSGA to use proxy vote over ethnic, racial diversity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... demographic makeup of companies is a fundamental challenge. "We are looking for companies that communicate goals and their strategy for how their diversity-related goals link to l/t strategy," Colton said. "At the board level, we're looking for board ...

Global fund managers unite to accelerate natural capital investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... preservation, protection and enhancement of nature. Lombard Odier launched a first-of-its-kind global equities investment strategy for natural capital last year, developed in partnership with the Circular Bioeconomy Alliance, established under Prince ...

Tech platform to assist ASX companies in ESG reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
Small and medium sized ASX listed companies can measure, monitor and report their material environmental, social and governance (ESG) exposures through a new technology platform linked to the World Economic Forum (WEF)'s ESG Global Standard Metrics. ...

The articles you read in 2020

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 29 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... energy efficiency and sustainable finance. Prior to that, he was executive director of Climate Strategies, and senior strategy manager at Carbon Trust, both in London. Previous employers also included the University of Oxford, the NSW Office of Environment ...

Report calls out AIA's coal-based assets, policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 22 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... of our efforts to meet our own significant climate ambitions." The result of that review will guide future investment strategy, AIA said. "Our focus on infrastructure investing over the past 30 years continues to be a mainstay of our program with increasing ...

CSC partners with Osmosis IM on sustainable strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 22 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... Superannuation Corporation is partnering with Osmosis Investment Management to launch an environmentally sustainable equity strategy. CSC, the $50 billion fund for government employees, will partner with Osmosis to launch a Resource Efficient Core Equity ...

Government to launch inquiry into financial sector and climate risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... funds - known as ERISA funds -proposed a controversial rule to compel pension funds to underpin any responsible investing strategy with a clear investment case based solely on pecuniary (economic) considerations. The proposal was the first time the DOL ...

Stakeholders mull impact of Rio Tinto report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... to self-determination. "We signed up to UNDRIP in 2013, and it was first promulgated in 2007," said James Fitzgerald, strategy lead and counsel at the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR). "In the years since, it's turned from something ...

Robeco launches SDG-linked credit income fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... like to call it that. We have such great IP in sustainability, we want to make sure we bring it to the market." "This strategy seemed to tick the boxes in a lot of wholesale/retail clients here, because it is sustainable and specifically linked to the ...