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ESG impacts on US pension funds tested

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2023
... Republican-aligned 'red' states that may be more likely to reject such ESG investment strategies." Currently, there are more than 20 US states, led by Texas and Florida, which actively prohibit pension funds in their jurisdictions from following ESG ...

Goldman Sachs charged over ESG failures

JAMIE WILLIAMSON, RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2022
... public pension plans, because their governance falls outside of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). Some US states led by GOP politicians have rallied behind the anti-ESG/anti-woke capitalism movement by constraining the investment processes ...

Quinbrook sells unicorn startup to Brookfield

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2022
... development, construction, ownership and operational management of large-scale wind power assets, diversified across multiple US states and power markets. Over that period, Quinbrook deployed a further US$470 million of equity capital from its managed ...

Global pension fund backs Aussie renewables

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2021
... already invested in Leeward Renewable Energy, a company that owns and operates 22 renewable energy facilities across nine US states, and Indian renewable power producer Azure Power Global.

US regulator, states sue Facebook

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2020
Facebook appears unfazed by antitrust lawsuits filed by 46 US states and the Federal Trade Commission seeking to force the social media giant to divest key assets, labelling the actions 'revisionist history'. The FTC and 48 Attorneys General ...

Bendigo and Adelaide Bank to face fresh class action

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2020
Enrolments in a fresh class action against Bendigo and Adelaide Bank on behalf of investors in the Great Southern managed investment scheme are being finalised this week. EQ Legal director Sasha Ivantsoff told Financial Standard that 850 entities including ...

Chief economist update: A tiny bug takes down the largest economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020
... quarter. However, any improvement would be tempered by deferrals and renewed restrictions in an increasing number of US states that are experiencing rising infections. A fact not lost on US Fed chair Jerome Powell. At a press conference following the ...

Chief economist update: The next generation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2020
... Madison, and Thomas Jefferson in that year [1790]" where "the US federal government assumed all the debt incurred by the US states during the War of Independence, laying the foundation for a strong central federal government in the United States". (Peterson ...

Chief economist update: Victoria's secret

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2020
... Hope not. The lead from other countries experiencing a second wave of the pandemic doesn't instil optimism. Several US states have either deferred re-opening or reimposed lockdown restrictions. China, Germany, South Korea, Iran, Saudi Arabia and ...

Chief economist update: The second wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2020
... of total cases of corona virus infections in the world (28%). The George Floyd protest rallies and reopening in most US states threaten a second wave. Already, there are accounts of new coronavirus infections starting to emerge in Texas, Florida, and ...