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Biodiversity loss, climate front of mind for investors

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
Institutional investors are increasingly concerned about the "twin crises" of biodiversity loss and climate change resulting from deforestation. That was a key finding of ISS STOXX's Natural Capital Research Institute's first report on how investors ...

Cooling US clean tech to drive Aus growth

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... reduction goal of 40% below 2005 levels by 2030. That's according to new Clean Investment Monitor data, a joint project from MIT and Rhodium Group. Clean energy and transportation as a whole in the country reached a new high of $71bn. However, technologies ...

Aus govt calls VCs and private equity to back circular economy

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
Doubling Australia's circularity rate could deliver a $26 billion net economic boost to GDP by 2035, according to Canberra's inaugural plan for a circular economy. The Circular Economy Framework, released last week by the federal department of climate ...

Climate changes how investors get paid

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
Climate change is causing a shift in the way investments are returned, from paying dividends to repurchasing shares - particularly in Australia. New research from the University of Queensland (UQ) finds the US, China, and the Philippines are also most ...

FX expert jumps from Insight to HSBC

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
Former Insight Investment specialist Ben Ereira will join HSBC Global Markets after the Christmas break. "I'm pleased to announce I will be working with the 3 times in a row winner of European Pensions Currency Manager of the Year - HSBC in January," ...

Super moves: Future Fund, Aware Super

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
Future Fund senior associate Wai-Kwan Chislett has moved from running overlay strategies to working with the responsible investment team until next July. Chislett has been with Australia's sovereign wealth fund for four years, most recently as senior ...

Asset managers move climate targets in-house

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
Goldman Sachs (GS) and Franklin Templeton shed light on their departures from UN-convened Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) and embattled climate group Climate Action 100+ (CA100+) respectively. GS said it would move its climate commitments to oversight ...

Green moves: Westpac, Care Super, BlackRock, Quinbrook, Ortec, CAA

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
One of the biggest moves this month: Fiona Wild will leave BHP to become Westpac's chief sustainability officer, according to news reports. This comes as Anthony Miller prepares to take over as CEO in December replacing Peter King. The current acting ...

Podcast: How Trump will impact global clean energy and climate finance with Lachlan Carey

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... Washington-based expert on clean energy investment and a non-resident fellow at the United States Studies Centre. According to MIT analysis, a Trump presidency will increase US emissions by four billion tons to 2030. Trump has vowed to repeal the Inflation ...

World Bank exit policy gets thumbs up from local experts

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
The world's largest development financier has released its long-awaited policy on responsibly divesting, a historic first in its 80-year history. The new policy builds on the Sustainability Policy of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) - the ...
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