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Global fund manager enters Australian market

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2020
... purely in the ESG space, offering global, multi-cap equity strategies focused on addressing United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). It has offices in New York, Boston and Toronto. Promethos's investment strategies include investing in ...

Giselle Roux joins Melbourne boutique

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020
... Future areas of interest for the boutique include: environment and climate, health and education, and sustainable development (such as social housing). "Social and crisis accommodation is particularly amenable to profit-seeking capital because we can ...

Australian Ethical divests Mercer parent company

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2020
... has made a public statement saying it may refuse work which is not aligned with its commitment to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, including climate change mitigation," he said. "However, the statement was vague and lacked meaningful information ...

LGS certified carbon neutral

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020
... social and economic co-benefits," Yip said. "The carbon offset projects align with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the values of our membership base." Yip added that the projects deliver community benefits in the form of employment ...

AustralianSuper throws weight behind SDG platform

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
... largest superannuation fund, has joined British Columbia Investment Management and PGGM to establish the Sustainable Development Investments Asset Owner Platform (SDI AOP). The platform will be driven by artificial intelligence data with the aim of enabling ...

Industry fund backs tobacco-free pledge

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
... deliver for members over the long term, she said. "That's why we joined the UN's Global Investors for Sustainable Development Alliance in 2019 to work with leading global investors to deliver on the Sustainable Development Goals, including strengthening ...

AMP Capital cuts fees on equities fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020
... unavoidable by-product of metallurgical coal extraction, which is currently still considered to be essential for sustainable development," AMP Capital said in a letter sent to investors. The fund will also go from targeting 30% lower carbon footprint ...

Time to step up or face the music

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... "Longer-term, ESG ratings will need to reflect how companies crucial to meeting policy objectives like the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Accord gather themselves to do business in a different way, re-setting course for a habitable, more ...

Stand still, get left behind

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2020
... defined its ESG strategy as having a clear bias towards companies with a positive impact on the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. To explain its strategy, Peers points to Orstead - a company Mirova has a holding in. Orstead used to be Danish Oil ...

Global asset manager fills giant impact fund

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2020
... in the lower middle market that contribute measurable progress toward one or more of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals," KKR said. Financial Standard understands Australia is included in the fund's geographic focus, with the firm's regional ...