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CEFC commits up to $125m in Qualitas property debt fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... said. QBIF is intended to capture growing demand for residential rental accommodation "while supporting Australia's transition to a low carbon future," Johansen said. "QBIF will help deliver quality housing stock into the growing rental market," Johansen ...

Energy Super taps Robeco for $650m enhanced indexing mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... portfolio can take time, and necessitating discussion with the client to determine the balance between the timing of the transition versus the costs incurred by moving. Enhanced indexing strategies are attracting attention from investors, Dennis noted. ...

Green bond issuance could hit close to US$300 billion: Insight Investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... the year to almost $300bn ($299.8bn). Insight Investment also pointed to new types of impact issuance, citing Enel's transition bond, which may present a model for further issuance from petroleum companies in 2020. "There's a huge amount of focus on ...

Climate change, human rights risks intertwined: GCNA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... inaction outweighs the cost of action," Porter said. "If you take that perspective, we know that having a very solid transition plan to 1.5 degrees will bring about opportunities. That's opportunities to invest in renewable energy, opportunities to invest ...

Analysis: climate change, Australia and the fierce urgency of now

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... investors to deliver meaningful change that delivers more sustainable, long-term practices in companies that require transition to the new, post-climate change economy." Investors such as superannuation funds are under pressure. "The pressure is coming ...

Companies that manage ESG issues "more resilient": Saturna Capital

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... fossil fuel free," Klimo said. "That was easy to implement, and the ESG integration, it wasn't even an evolution or a transition or a change, it was really not anything that required anything at all apart from divesting from a few fossil fuel investments. ...

Australian execs see impacts of, responsibility for climate change: Deloitte

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... expects that those technologies that impact will shape outcomes at faster than a linear rate. "When people talk about the transition of the Australian economy, they talk as if technology improves in a linear way," Hillard said. "If you look at assumptions ...

Global green bond market continues to grow, expand: J.P. Morgan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... impressively." Going forward, Ceci thinks there will be more issuance around the SDGs and is looking to vehicles to mitigate the transition to a low-carbon economy as themes for 2020. "The other consideration is transition - how do we define transition ...

Calculating the shorter, longer-term cost of bushfire

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
Economists have begun to count the costs of bushfires throughout southern Australia, identifying that the agriculture, tourism, retail and construction sectors will see negative impacts, but also saying that the worst impacts will be "indirect." Carlos ...

BlackRock joins Climate Action 100+ investor initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... Herd said. "We need deeper and more urgent action from those companies who hold the key to making the zero emissions transition that will de-risk our economies and communities from climate change. This signal from the world's largest asset manager that ...