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Offshore windfarms offer co-benefits

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
Investing in offshore wind farms offer biodiversity and economic co-benefits, according to new research led by Aberystwyth University academics. Research published in the ICES Journal of Marine Science found that offshore wind farms in the UK inadvertently ...

Say on climate a "milestone moment" for ASX companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... the meantime. BlackRock, the world's largest fund manager, continues to press for disclosure in company engagements, said Iris Davila head of investment stewardship, BlackRock Australia. "We have been discussing this with companies, to provide us with ...

ASX companies under the spotlight for global investor engagement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... Global Principles and market-level voting guidelines for the firm's engagement with thousands of companies annually, said Iris Davila, head of investment stewardship, BlackRock Australia. Board composition, effectiveness, and accountability remain a ...

BlackRock details engagement activity in stewardship report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... clients." "What we need to do is ensure the long term operational sustainability of the companies that we are invested in," said Iris Davila, Australian head of investment stewardship at BlackRock. "What we are seeking to achieve is to be very clear ...

Emerging markets present opportunities for impact investing: 57 Stars

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... and increasing access to underserved or excluded populations." Another tool we use for the firm's impact analysis is the IRIS catalogue, which they use to set impact metrics and targets for each transaction. "One of the benefits of latest catalogue of ...

Accounting for or managing: experts debate managing impact at RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
... measurement, and we keep getting better at it every year." SVA started assessing and reporting on social impact using the IRIS metrics such as jobs created or dwellings for people with disability built. However, those metrics didn't provide enough to ...

Impact Investing Australia surveys $1.2bn impact investment universe

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2016  |  NEWS
... refined - metrics being used globally and in Australia "do not yet correlate neatly to the major global taxonomies, including IRIS." The report developed apex impact measures as a reference point, which Impact Investing Australia said could be used to ...

New Forests launches ESG investment performance framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... within each area. New Forests has also applied impact reporting metrics from the Impact Reporting and Investment Standards (IRIS) catalogue of performance metrics, which is an initiative of the Global Impact Investing Network (The GIIN). New Forests ...

New Forests launches responsible investment policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... also implemented sustainability reporting using standardised metrics from the Impacting Reporting and Investment Standards (IRIS) program and used case studies to illustrate its sustainability reporting. New Forest has more than 615,000 hectares in assets ...

AXA IM to offer impact investing fund of funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... in its relative infancy much progress has been made to enhance its credibility such as the setting up of standards such as IRIS (Impact Reporting and Investment Standards) or labels such as GIIRS (Global Impact Investing Rating System)," Christensen ...
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