Australian Unity is a unique business in Australia, as a mutual entity with operations in investment management, banking and healthcare. With its community and social values framework as a touchstone, Matthew Moore, head of responsible investment and stewardship at Australian Unity in Sydney, says the company deploys consistent responsible investment principles across its investment decisions.
The Westpac-KangaNews New Zealand Sustainable Finance Summit focused on the need to turn decarbonisation plans into action across the local economy, supported by an energised and evolving domestic capital market. At the end of another busy year, Westpac’s Auckland-based head of sustainable finance, Joanna Silver, discusses progress made so far and goals for 2023.
Impact Investment Exchange (IIX)’s most recent issue, a US$50 million orange bond, is a first for the global debt capital markets. IIX and ANZ – a lead on the transaction – hope the new label will help spearhead intentional and robust investment with a gender lens.