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Alphinity launches SDG-aligned fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... companies that generate more than 5% of revenue from the production of fossil fuels, controversial fuels such as uranium, gold mining where gold is the primary purpose of the mine, factory farming, live exports, predatory lending, alcohol and gambling ...

Super funds file Modern Slavery Statements

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... "There will be more and more collaboration within industry groups," he said. "You've seen that with property, banks and mining companies helping each other out. "The investment industry is working through the RIAA working group and in other ways. ...

Hostplus announces four board appointments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... and the environment. The company's Maules Creek coal mine, for example, is one of Australia's most controversial mining projects." Market Forces campaigner Rachel Dean noted that the petition to pressure Hostplus to remove Vaile is part of a ...

Hostplus ESG head jumps to HESTA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... will support HESTA to continue its important work." HESTA led recent global investor engagement with Rio Tinto and other mining companies on managing financial risks associated with Indigenous heritage protection following the Juukan Gorge caves destruction. ...

New fossil fuel exploration acreage released

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... March 2022. Minister for resources, water and Northern Australia Keith Pitt announced the release of the new acreage for mining oil and gas exploration at the conference. "The annual Acreage Release is a crucial component of the Government's gas-fired ...

ARENA to provide finance for pumped hydro facility

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... project is a 250 MW / 2,000 MWh PHES, equivalent to eight hours of energy storage. The project will utilise two existing mining pits at the former gold mine as the upper and lower reservoirs for the PHES to minimise construction time and costs. ARENA ...

Social issues come to fore in 2020: Ausbil

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... Ausbil also participated in engagements with Rio Tinto after the Juukan Gorge incident in May 2020, as well as with other mining companies, as well as focusing on risks of waste and the circular economy, leading towards further discussions of climate ...

Assessing climate risk in corporate bond portfolios

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... It does remain the case that you do still want to be involved in every single sector, and some, such as the metals and mining sector, tend to have higher emissions. If you're in a bond that we feel is really responding to the engagement, we would ...

Investors lag in integrating climate risk: PGIM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... industries will outperform, and the role of active investment such as engagement can be used to influence fossil fuel users and mining companies to integrate more sustainable practices. "It's also true that the inevitable transition will take longer ...

Ausbil drops fossil fuel companies from sustainable fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... tobacco, weapons and armaments, and pornography. The exclusion list has been expanded to include investing in exploration, mining and/or the distribution of fossil fuels, including oil, gas, oil sands and all coal. This fund excludes two types of companies ...