Managers of Wealth Asia Pacific

Not yet ESG ready

Moreover, the ESG assessment underscored management’s history of making intra-group transactions.

Are regulators pushing too hard on ESG?

Asia’s regulators, more than private banks, have been driving ESG-focused investing, though the latter have started to make ‘less formal’ inquiries.

One man's waste is another man's investment opportunity

A growing awareness of climate change and environmental issues highlights the rising value of solid waste management and recovery/recycling industries

Australia Announces Aus$500 Million ($340 Million) Climate Change Package for Pacific Island Countries

The climate-sceptic leader made the announcement before traveling to the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) in Tuvalu

Expanding the green bond universe

Record growth in the market for first half of 2019 is a positive sign but there is still more room to grow, especially in Asia

China: an emerging leader on climate change

China has, in the past few years, adopted various energy efficient measures to decarbonise its economy which was heavily dependent on fossil fuels for decades.

DBS Inks India Startup Partnership

The three firms include women-focused e-commerce firm Even Cargo; mental healthcare startup Trust Circle, which leverages mobile AI tech for emotional resilience; and affordable medical device startup Incredible Devices.

Asia ESG ETF assets double to US$2 billion from 2015, Broadridge says

Australia, China and Japan are the three large markets for ETFs focused on environmental, social and governance criteria in Asia

BlackRock launches ESG global bond fund

The fund would aim to offer an access to a core fixed income exposure to global fixed income securities for environmental, social, governance aware investors

China is not the priority for Pacific island leaders – it’s climate change

But local leaders attending the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) in Tuvalu from August 13-16 are wary their concerns will be sidelined if they become pawns in a wider power struggle.

HKIFA puts forward Green/Sustainable Finance Roadmap for the Asset Management Industry

The current regulatory requirements are not fully conducive to the use of cloud for record keeping purposes.

Renewables are powering to the top, but not for long

The survey found investment confidence in renewables had dropped from 7.1 points out of 10 at the end of 2018, to 6.59 out of 10 in July 2019.

40% of hedge funds now consider ESG

Research shows that sustainability analysis is being embraced by the hedge fund market

UOB PB questions ESG definitions

The bank is also looking at adding ‘liquid private markets’ products to its platform and is steering away from narrow thematic products.

US bonds present ESG problem

Investors with otherwise sound ESG integration could be exposed to these companies - especially as many of the companies in question are unlisted.

Aberdeen to manage AIIB’s US$500 million Asia ESG bond portfolio

It will be managed by the asset manager’s fixed income team in Singapore.

Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Partners With Aberdeen Standard Investments

The Asia ESG Enhanced Credit Managed Portfolio was approved by the AIIB Board of Directors in December 2018. ASI was awarded the contract to manage the portfolio through a competitive bidding process.

Not yet ESG ready

This week, a company with strong fundamentals that did not pass Robeco’s ESG analysis.

Can venture philanthropy turn on Southeast Asia to clean energy?

“Climate change was, and is, the number one threat to all of the things we care most deeply about,” she told her audience at the Asian Venture Philanthropy Network Conference 2019 in Singapore last week.

ESG options outperform in the short term: Research

ESG options tend to underperform over three and five-year periods, Rainmaker said, noting the gap was only 20 and 30 basis points respectively.

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