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Fidelity bolsters ESG skills

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 23 FEB 2023  |  NEWS
... sustainable investing team to integrate sustainability into investment processes. Stubbs joins Fidelity from Macquarie Capital, where she was an ESG equity research associate evaluating the largest 300 listed companies in Australia on ESG and sustainability ...

Mike Cannon-Brookes, CEFC back biosequestration startup

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2023  |  NEWS
... funding, with commitments from the CEFC and Cannon-Brookes' Grok Ventures. The funding round was co-led by Lowercarbon Capital and Wollemi Capital with participation from Horizons Ventures, Acre Venture partners, Main Sequence, Cannon-Brookes' Grok Ventures ...

Qualitas names Fiona Reynolds to ESG advisory board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2023  |  NEWS
... we should be positioning ourselves as a sustainable finance hub for APAC. Within Australia, we have this huge pool of capital, we've got extreme knowledge within our baking sector, within the superannuation sector, and the transition is going to require ...

Platinum hires ESG expert as head of stewardship

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2023  |  NEWS
... and investment goals of the company are aligned." Bailey previously held roles as a senior research analyst at Adamantem Capital and Perpetual Limited, as well as roles at Citi and Lehman Brothers in the UK. Bailey previously spoke with FS Sustainability ...

Testing ESG impacts on US pension fund returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2023  |  NEWS
There is no difference between investment returns for US state pension funds in "blue" states that might be more likely to integrate ESG investment principles and "red" states that are more likely to ban ESG investment strategies, according to Rainmaker ...

ISSB standards do not introduce increased risk for investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2023  |  NEWS
... level of clarity must be protected, because it's a crucial part of giving investors confidence so they can allocate capital in support of credible and robust business strategies." The ISSB standards will provide "a level of comparability that investors ...

Super Housing Partnerships taps property leader as new CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 FEB 2023  |  NEWS
... "SHP is a unique organisation in Australia, its work is to combine individual housing outcomes with large institutional capital flows," she said. "Our challenge and opportunity is to do that at scale. It didn't take me long to warm to the concept to ...

2023 the year for business action on climate change: EY

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 FEB 2023  |  NEWS
... make change and the large emitters will find it hard to reduce emissions," Nelson said. "They're not small tasks. Capital is going to be available, but it will likely run out before they've completed the whole journey, so biz will have to have ...

US attorneys general call out proxy advisers for "woke" agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2023  |  NEWS
A coalition of US Republican states attorneys general have sent a letter to two proxy voting advisers, warning them over ESG-related recommendations to their states' investment vehicles including pension funds. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and ...

US states sue Biden administration over "woke" ESG rules

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2023  |  NEWS
Twenty-five American Republican state attorneys general are suing the US Department of Labor to halt new rules that would allow US-based retirement plans to consider ESG factors in their investment processes. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Utah ...