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Seeking financial, positive impact in SME investments: Beckon Capital

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... financially as well as in terms of positive impact on communities and environment. "We were taught early on in our development that when you're looking for businesses/assets, you need to look for sustainable earnings," said Phil Moffitt, co-founder of ...

Thai regulator becomes TCFD suppporter

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... announcement. The move is also designed to enhance the Thai capital markets' capacity for contributing to sustainable development in line with Thailand's National 20-Year Strategy and in line with the move towards the United Nations Sustainable Development ...

Social license to operate, stakeholder management key governance concerns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... voting at AGMs this season? A: We are seeing Board diversity improve through better gender mix, which is a welcome development, but I would also add that real diversity is much broader than gender. If we have a board and there are 10 accountants or 10 ...

Integrating impact investing in listed equity portfolios

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... investment capital in public markets can create additional positive outcomes towards aims such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Australian market for impact investing has nearly tripled over the past two years, from $5.7 billion to $19.9 ...

Australian Ethical tops $5 billion in assets under management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... side of the business to meet demand, including hiring a digital client relationship manager. Simons reiterated that development. "The way we define ourselves is, we're an ethical investment manager, we're a leading investment manager, and that ...

SGX hires head of sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... collaboration by actively building partnerships and networks to enhance industry cooperation and knowledge in sustainable development, as well as advancing the development of SGX's ESG solutions and regulatory support for its stakeholders," SGX said. ...

Global fund managers unite to accelerate natural capital investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... Asset Management is joined by Lombard Odier and Mirova as foundation partners. The alliance aims to accelerate the development of natural capital as an investment theme and to engage the US$ 120 trillion investment management industry and mobilise this ...

Tech platform to assist ASX companies in ESG reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... report if progress on each metric had happened." Hajda noted that the WEF outputs could be aligned to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and other frameworks as well. The WEF metrics platform is designed to assist smaller ASX listed companies who ...

Water, water risk everywhere: DWS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... usable for life on earth. Lewis likened measuring water risks to measuring other impacts captured by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). "You need to understand where are the high risks, medium risks, and low risks within a portfolio," Lewis said. ...

Successful ESG integration: moving from why to how

GUILLAUME MASCOTTO  |  TUESDAY, 29 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
Recent regulatory developments suggest that environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing is neither a fad nor a subjective enterprise. Rather, it has become a critical part of day-to-day investment management. Global investor commitment to ESG ...