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Australia's first global carbon credits ETF hits market

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2022
VanEck Australia has launched an ETF to give investors access to a global marketplace for carbon credits. VanEck Global Carbon Credits ETF (XCO2) will track the ICE Global Carbon Futures Index, which sources carbon credit futures prices from the four ...

CEFC, Grok Ventures back solar tech firm

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2022
... Separately, the CEFC has also committed up to $30 million to a hybrid sustainable grazing model, with the goal of delivering carbon credits alongside enhanced biodiversity protection and sustainable red meat production. The Wyuna Regenerative Agriculture ...

Sustainable investment now mainstream: Survey

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2022
... compared to the Americas (53%) and EMEA (48%). Interestingly, overall asset owners are less likely to consider climate/carbon a key priority this year, falling from 67% to 41%. Diversity and inclusion (52%), public policy (49%), and labour rights (47%) ...

Future Generation expands Plato mandate

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2022
... Hedge Fund, supporting its ambition to outperform the MSCI World Net Returns Unhedged Index while achieving a net zero carbon footprint. Launched in September last year, the Plato Global Net Zero Hedge Fund is a global equities long/short strategy, holding ...

AXA IM Alts bolsters natural capital platform

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2022
... existing portfolio of nature-based solutions and seeks to identify investments across strategic equity, direct financing, and carbon solutions. Together, Gibbon, Cavallo and Alva Estabridis will support and lead the deployment of this strategy. Gibbon ...

Quinbrook sells unicorn startup to Brookfield

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2022
... 2019, Scout's pipeline has had 65% year-on-year growth in scale and its projects have generated an estimated 8.5 TWh of carbon-free power to date.

UniSuper caps future investment in fossil fuels

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2022
... wholly owned direct property portfolio, ahead of a previous target of 2025. Further, the fund has ascertained that the carbon intensity of all pre-mixed options, including defined benefit, is below the reference benchmarks of the ASX300 and MSCI world. ...

NZ Super shifts $25bn to low carbon indices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2022
The NZ Super Fund has shifted about 40% of its overall portfolio to low carbon indices, in a move that will "significantly reduce" the number of listed companies the fund owns directly. The NZ$57 billion fund began to roll over its indices to the MSCI ...

JANA announces Sustainability Advisory Council

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2022
... to action," she said. Grogan added she believes that impact investing is becoming a powerful tool in the transition to carbon neutrality. "More and more, investors can hold their portfolio companies accountable, to cut through the greenwashing and to ...

Canadian-based data platform wins ISPT mandate

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2022
... million in transforming a Melbourne CBD asset, rather than demolishing the building. The move is in favour of reducing carbon emissions, with the commercial asset of 500 Bourke Street set to become one of ISPT's most sustainable holdings. The base building ...