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Positive outlook for impact future: Conscious Investment Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... that Conscious Investment Management focuses on social infrastructure like disability housing, deep impact, such as social impact bonds, property, including affordable housing, and environmental infrastructure. "Our typical model is to partner with charities ...

QBE makes allocation to impact investment fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... businesses following an investment." QBE's Premiums4Good portfolio has, to date, invested in 66 enterprises including social impact bonds, social bonds, green bonds and infrastructure - supporting a range of initiatives from renewable energy and ...

IIG launches alternative fund-of funds impact strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... impact private equity, venture capital for high-growth startups which meet the fund's impact thesis, impact debt, social impact bonds, environmental assets and regenerative farming. The fund has a pipeline of early investments, with the first deals ...

Responsible investment AUM grows, but disclosure lags: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... sustainability-themed investing grew from 4% in 2018 to 6% in 2019. The most popular themed investments by AUM are social impact (20%), agriculture (13%) and climate change (10%). "What you're still seeing there is a little bit of a slight mismatch ...

Paradice Investment Management appoint head of ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
Paradice Investment Management has hired Nicholas Varcoe as head of ESG. Varcoe will work with the Paradice investment teams to "drive forward the integration of ESG factors, including climate change and modern slavery, in investment decision-making ...

Investing in healthcare yields financial, social returns: American Century

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... billion as of June 2020. "What's unique about it is the cross action between financial returns and a positive social impact we are looking to achieve," Li said. "We believe in the strategy we can do both. We can do well by doing good. So, in terms ...

Climate, modern slavery areas of engagement: Ethical Partners

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
Climate issues and modern slavery were key issues of engagement for Ethical Partners Funds Management, which this week released its engagement report detailing activities over the past 12 months. Robyn Parkin, sustainability and advocacy, Ethical Partners ...

ESG integration "crucial" to credit investments: Janus Henderson

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
Integration of material environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into investment processes in fixed income and credit portfolios is "crucial" to risk management, according to Janus Henderson. L-R: Jay Sivapalan, head of Australian fixed interest ...

SASB, GRI announce collaborative workplan for further understanding

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) have announced a collaborative workplan to drive understanding of how the standards can be used concurrently. In its initial phase, the collaboration will ...

Transformational investment needed to address systemic risk: WEF

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has identified six critical systemic risks that require a transformational investment approach to convert those risks to sustainable returns. Helga Birgden, global business leader, responsible investment and partner, Mercer ...