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Ninety One launches emerging market transition debt fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
Global investment manager Ninety One has launched an emerging market debt strategy that will focus on investing in company issuance that finances the transition to a lower carbon economy. The Emerging Market Transition Debt (EMTD) will aim to provide ...

Growth in green bond issuance brings choice, challenges

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
The green, social and sustainability (GSS+) bond market is in its infancy, but the growth in issuance as well as fund strategies covering that category of bonds means investors have increased choice, but also questions about transparency and how to ...

Australia climbs quickly on climate policy development

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
Australia ranked as the sixth country in terms of climate policy developments in 2023, but experts are concerned that the country is "playing catch up". At the top of the Inevitable Policy Response (IPR)'s list was the US with 38 policy developments ...

Hazardous chemicals a key challenge for investors

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... chemicals for each company. Searchable databases such as the SIN Producers List by the NGO ChemSec, supporting partner of the Investor Initiative on Hazardous Chemicals (IIHC), a collaborative engagement initiative AXA IM is a member of. "Ideally one ...

Podast: Greening Gold - Terry Heymann

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
In this conversation, we're talking about making gold a little more green with World Gold Council CFO Terry Heymann. If noted commodities experts and rock group Smashmouth taught us anything, it's hey now, all that glitters is gold. Now the World Gold ...

ANZ sustainable fund flows buck global trend: Morningstar

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... million. Globally, "high interest rates and looming recession among some of the world's largest economies weighed on investor sentiment along with the escalation of global geopolitical risks from the Israel-Hamas war. In 2023, global sustainable funds ...

BlueScope receives funding for lower emissions project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
BlueScope Steel and LIBERTY Steel Australia have received a combined total of $200 million in grant funding from the federal government for projects that will lower emissions in steel production. The funding is drawn from the government's Powering the ...

Nature-related disclosures underway

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... reporting." Australian financial institutions on the list are asset manager Ethical Partners Funds Management, natural capital investor New Forests, and investment firm Metrics Credit Partners. Australian companies are Brambles, Forico, Telstra, the ...

Accountant ethics board drafts new sustainability benchmarks

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
An international independent global standards-setting board has released new standards on ethical considerations in sustainability reporting and assurance. Public consultation has opened on the two new exposure drafts, put forward by International Ethics ...

Social and governance factors top "new risk reality"

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 30 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... action versus 75% of small companies. The survey finds this is driven by customer expectations, regulatory requirements, investor expectations and long-term development plans. Social and governance issues accounted for 73% and 65% of sustainability efforts ...