Managers of Wealth Asia Pacific

UBS Wealth adds HY to ESG strategy

The firm has again partnered with Hermes Investment Management to manage a sustainable product that is exclusive for UBS Wealth clients.

Indonesia’s new green fund urged to focus on rainforest protection

The agency could potentially raise up to 800tn rupiah ($56.5bn) for environmental projects, Indonesia’s finance minister told reporters.

MSCI's China benchmark firms improve ESG ratings

According to Xiaoshu Wang, MSCI’s vice president of ESG research, the improvement shows that Beijing’s new laws and policies to promote better ESG practices and disclosure are beginning to have an effect.

Standard Chartered Launches Sustainable Deposit Solution

This follows what the bank claims to be the world’s first SDG deposit product launched in Europe by Standard Chartered in May 2019.

Aviva unveils ESG fund for Singaporean retail clients

To help people in the Lion City plan for their retirement

Carbon offsetting: the frequently asked questions

Here are some of the most commonly-asked questions about carbon accounting.

Data provider jumps into ESG measurement morass

If there isn’t a common language of responsible investing for public markets, how on earth could anyone expect Preqin to develop one for private capital markets”?

Asia’s thirsty coal-fired power plants face water scarcity

Coal-fired power plants that demand enormous amounts of water to cool down will prove to be an unsustainable source of electricity in the long run.

Sustainable Investing: what is it and what is the future of sustainable investing in Asia?

Over the past couple of decades we have witnessed the introduction of a dramatic number of laws, policies, targets and initiatives across the globe which are imprinting environmental and social considerations into the rules that govern our financial syste

Demand growing for ESG fixed income solutions in Asia

HSBC Global Asset Management is looking to raise US$750 million for an emerging market green impact bond fund

HSBC GAM’s discretionary ESG approach

Fund managers at HSBC Global Asset Management can accept or ignore ESG red flags, but they can’t deny the warnings, according to the firm’s responsible investment specialist.

Collective Commitment to Climate Action

Working together and supporting each other in developing each bank’s capabilities and the necessary methodologies to measure climate impact and alignment with global and local climate goals.

Climate disaster help urgently needed for Asia-Pacific’s poor and vulnerable communities

Nowhere is this reality starker than in the Asia-Pacific, which has suffered another year of devastation.

Banks worth $47 trillion adopt new U.N.-backed climate principles

Under pressure from investors, regulators and climate activists, some big banks have acknowledged the role lenders will need to play in a rapid transition to a low-carbon economy.

Institutional investors see climate change, AI as key for asset allocation

Challenges related to AI include short corporate lifecycles and blurred sectoral boundaries, and investors surveyed are “increasingly mixing active and passive investment strategies, focusing on idiosyncratic risk in portfolios” to address the

Asian financial big guns and millennials drive ESG growth - report

ESG factor integration is the most popular strategy used in Australia. Japanese institutional investors tend to use the governance factor the most and prefer positive screening.

Asia trails the developed world in sustainable investment, but now looks poised to close that gap

Large asset owners in Asia are allocating increasingly to strategies that take environmental, social and governance issues into account.

Powering a sustainable future

The Paris Agreement on Climate Change sets ambitious targets for governments to meet by 2050.

Australian media outlet launches ‘honest government ad’ on climate change

Other than calling attention to the ecological breakdown that will lead major ecosystems to their tipping point

ESG Investing Grows Among Asia's Young and Rich

«In Asia we are seeing a changing of the guard,» Michael Reed, head of Wealth Management, Southeast Asia and chief executive, RBC Singapore, said about the survey findings.

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