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Metrics Credit Partners acquires

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2021
... and New Zealand. Recently, Metrics Credit Partners became the first Australian non-bank asset manager to join the Climate Bonds Partnership Programme. Metrics joins the big four banks, the Green Buildings Council of Australia, and the Clean Energy Finance ...

CFS joins firms in net zero alignment

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2021
... 2050. The initiative helps asset owners on the pathway to net zero by providing metrics and methodologies for sovereign bonds, listed equity and corporate fixed income and real estate. It will soon establish approaches for infrastructure and private ...

Metrics Credit Partners joins climate partnership

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2021
... four banks, the Green Buildings Council of Australia and the Clean Energy Finance Corporation in the Climate Bonds Initiative's (CBI) programme. Metrics' place in the partnership will see its endorsement of mobilising global capital for climate change ...

Metrics hires three senior leads

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 SEP 2021
... Australia Bank where she was director of sustainable finance. Prior to that she was a senior adviser to the Climate Bonds Initiative, based in London. Lalit Barhate is the new director of internal audit and was previously the head of internal audit at ...

Cashwerkz to launch funds incubator

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2020
... investors and financial advisers. "Bond Income increases the revenue capability of Cashwerkz given the additional margins bonds and fixed income products have over cash and term deposit margins," it said. It comes following a capital raise in May 2020 ...

Chief economist update: Gone fishing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2020
... to the wheel." Sure, there's no better time to borrow. Based on Factset data, Australia can issue 30-year government bonds at just 1.75% -- accounting for inflation, that's practically free money. But as the Chair of the Economics Committee Tim ...

UNSW to ditch fossil fuels

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2020
... University said it will divest from direct ownership and any commingled funds that include public equities and corporate bonds of companies whose primary business is the ownership and exploitation of fossil fuels reserves by 2025. UNSW president and ...

Foresight launches new wholesale fund

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2019
... renewable projects. The loans will be structured under a sustainability framework and certified by the Climate Bonds Initiative and verified by the Carbon Trust. Foresight said the fund's target is 4-4.5% over the RBA cash rate. This is Foresight's first ...

Impact investing under threat

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2019
... not necessarily having a substantial positive impact on the environment. "In Australia, the big banks have issued green bonds. We've invested in some of them and not in others. I'm not knocking them as an asset class but I'm saying if people ...

AUM growth subdued to 2025: Bloomberg

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2019
... fund managers said they expect to move from interest-rate sensitive asset classes or types, such as sovereign and corporate bonds to equities and infrastructure. Bloomberg said the asset management landscape by 2025 will likely feature more active management ...