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Green moves: Alphinity, Australian Ethical, Climate Change Authority

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2025  |  NEWS
The Climate Change Authority has welcomed Gretta Stephens as a new member, just one month after her resignation as head of climate change and sustainability at BlueScope. The independent statutory body, set up to advise Canberra, highlighted Stephens' ...

Munro takes climate fund to New Zealand

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2025  |  NEWS
GSFM affiliate Munro Partners' Global Growth Climate Leaders Fund has entered the New Zealand market. The fund, which was spawned from the Munro Climate Change Leaders Fund, has been set up as a portfolio investment entity (PIE) for Kiwi wholesale ...

China issues inaugural sovereign green bonds

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2025  |  NEWS
The Ministry of Finance of People's Republic of China (MOF) has launched US$824 million green bonds of three-year and five-year maturity on the London Stock Exchange's (LSE) international securities market, marking the first time that China has built ...

ISS ESG introduces new Sustainability Bond Rating

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2025  |  NEWS
ISS ESG launched a new Sustainability Bond Rating to give investors a sustainability impact and risk assessment at the issuance level of ESG or sustainability-linked bonds. It can be applied across bonds issued by both corporate and sovereign entities ...

Investors progress on climate, but barriers emerge

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2025  |  NEWS
... give investors the confidence to deploy funds into Australian growth industries." Meantime, Till Jung, global head of ESG at ISS STOXX, the report's sponsor, said the findings should help the market cut through the noise and understand how investors ...

DWS fined $43m for greenwashing

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2025  |  NEWS
DWS will pay $43 million (US$27m) to settle a long-running greenwashing case brought by Frankfurt prosecutors. In 2021, a whistleblower - former DWS group sustainability officer Desiree Fixler - came forward with claims the asset manager was making ...

Investors called on to help end modern slavery

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2025  |  NEWS
Australian anti-slavery commissioner Chris Evans has told the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) summit that he will be pushing for tougher penalties on those who have not done enough to abolish slavery from their supply chains. "As ...

Sue Brake joins Aware Super committee

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2025  |  NEWS
Aware Super has invited former Future Fund investment chief Sue Brake and Macquarie Group veteran Grant Smith to join its investment committee. The two private markets experts - who have been appointed to the committee for two years - will oversee the ...

Shift away from responsible investing 'overstated': PRI

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
Investors are continuing to engage on responsible investment issues such as climate related risks, governance, and human rights and social issues, new analysis from the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) show. The analysis shows investors are ...

Impact investing needs instos to scale: Experts

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
While it has gained momentum in the last 15 years, impact investing still requires major backing from institutional investors and governments for it to scale and become a formidable force, the first day of the Impact Investment Summit Asia Pacific heard ...
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