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Student accommodation provider inks billion-dollar SLL

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... commitments, Scape is pledging to switch to renewable energy and pursue Green Star Performance ratings across their portfolio. The 27 assets account for more than 80% of Scape's operational portfolio, said Scape chief financial officer Tim Peel. "SLLs ...

Bowen paints mixed outlook for energy future

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 12 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... climate discussions. The COP that's coming up in a couple weeks' time will be difficult." "Climate change and energy portfolio is frankly the most important job... I'll ever do," Bowen said. "It is biggest economic transformation our country's ...

Investors warned on human rights risk in Israel-Hamas conflict

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 12 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... toolkit, designed to help investors identify "actual and potential adverse human rights and IHL impacts in their investment portfolio; avoid causing, contributing to or being directly linked to adverse human rights impacts or violations of IHL through ...

Investing in net zero "makes business sense": Energetics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
Editorial note: This is the first in a six-part series of articles brought to you by Energetics While setting a net zero target and implementing strategies to transition from current carbon emissions activities to that long term goal is not quite business ...

Does sustainable investing underperform?

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... sustainable investing portfolios performed at 0.2% lower than the proxy for the US market, and 0.1% lower when accounting for portfolio market risk exposure. In addition, more than 50% of the positive alpha in 2020 is explained by industry exposure factors ...

UniSuper, pension funds buy forestry fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... their retirement savings over the long term," said UniSuper head of private markets Sandra Lee. "Not only is forestry a portfolio diversifier, but it also supports the global transition towards decarbonisation through carbon storage as well as substitution ...

Danish pension fund completes US$520m divestment

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
Danish pension fund AkademikerPension has completed a fossil fuel divestment program to exit its portfolio of oil and gas stocks worth US$520 million with the sale of Italy's ENI. The fund, which oversees $20 billion in client assets, has undergone ...

Climate fund assets reach half a trillion dollars

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
The world is failing to limit warming to 1.5°C - yet climate transition funds are gaining traction, with assets in open-end and exchange-traded funds with a climate focus now reaching US$534 billion. Boosted by inflows and product development, assets ...

ZEN Energy recruits new senior exec

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... the company said. "With this injection of capital, ZEN plans to bring on more renewable energy and storage into our portfolio, including from assets that we are developing. This will enable us to scale our partnerships with existing and new sustainability ...

Podcast: Regenerating Aussie agriculture from field to plate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... Greener Way is the Wide Open Agriculture CEO Jay Albany. Wide Open Agriculture is an ASX-listed company that focuses on a portfolio of regenerative food products and brands that aim to produce nutritious food at accessible prices as well as nurture the ...