The Greener Way

In this episode … brought to you by CFS Thrive+, we’ll be discussing the big picture of responsible investing and why it matters to end investors and the advisers who are assisting them.

Joining us for this conversation is Colonial First State Chief Investment Officer Jonathan Armitage. Jonathan has had a storied career in funds management, including a deep experience in sustainable and responsible investment, which he shares with us. 

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In this episode of The Greener Way, we’re talking investing in affordable housing with Casey Taylor from Conscious Investment Management. By any conceivable measure, affordable housing is a crisis in Australia, with a variety of potential mechanisms being levied to solve the problem, including the federal government’s national Housing Accord struck between the government, institutional investors, and industry to help tackle issue.

Conscious Investment Management has invested in several specialist affordable, social and affordable housing projects as part of its investment mandate, and Casey will talk to us about Conscious Investment Management, how they approach the issue and the role private investment can play in solving the problem. 

Today senior journalist Rose Mary Petrass speaks with Gary Wyatt, group managing director of Corporate Carbon – Australia's largest Emissions Reduction Fund project owner with more than 3 million acres of land under active management and more than 100 projects across 12 different methodology types.

Gary demystifies carbon credits and how they are developed and brought to market, the verification process, and what changes are needed to drive investor participation in this emerging asset class. 

In this episode of The Greener Way, we’re speaking with Jack Latimore. Jack is the Aboriginal affairs journalist at The Age. He is a Birpai man with family ties to Thungutti and Gumbaynggirr nations.

Later this year, Australian citizens will be asked to vote on in a referendum to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the Constitution by establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice.

The Vote on Voice is being widely debated and many institutions including key Australian business and investors have either publicly come out in favour of the vote, or are mulling whether to publicly take a stance.

Jack discusses discuss how he approaches covering this historic time for The Age, how he establishes sources within Indigenous communities and how people can better educate themselves as they consider how to vote later this year.

More information:

The Quarterly Essay – Megan Davis, Voice of Reason On Recognition and Renewal: Quarterly Essay 90 (https://www.quarterlyessay.com.au/)

Elements of Indigenous Style: A Guide for Writing by and about Indigenous Peoples, Gregory Younging (https://www.amazon.com.au/Elements-Indigenous-Style-Writing-Peoples/dp/1550597167)

Truth-Telling: History, sovereignty and the Uluru Statement, Henry Reynolds https://www.newsouthbooks.com.au/books/truth-telling/

Tom King, director and CIO of Nanuk Asset Management, joins the podcast in conversation with senior journalist Rose Mary Petrass. 

Tom’s career spans Olympic sailing to funds management. We discuss how Tom steers the Nanuk ship of sustainably-themed responsible investment through the turbulent waters of a changing world – while simultaneously calling for ESG to be banned. 

This episode of The Greener Way is a couple of firsts – our first repeat guest and our first book corner!

We welcome back John Pabon, corporate sustainability consultant, former UN advisor and analyst, and author to discuss his new book The Great Greenwashing. John defines green speak, misdirection, greenscamming and what you can do to fight it. 

In this episode of The Greener way, we’re speaking with Tianna Rose, an associate adviser at Verse Wealth. The CFA Institute in recent years has introduced the Certificate in ESG Investing in Australia, designed to investment professionals the benchmark knowledge and skills they require to integrate ESG factors into their investment processes.

Tianna recently received the Certificate in ESG Investing accreditation, and we’re going to talk with her about her career, why she went for the certificate and what she feels it can do for career development.

In this episode senior journalist Rose Mary Petrass speaks with Dr Laura Ryan, head of research at Ardea investment management, on her research surrounding promotion in the Australian finance industry.

Laura discusses her recent paper, co-authored alongside the CFA Institute and ANU, and the business case for getting the mix right.

In this episode brought to you by CFS Thrive Plus, Colonial First State director Responsible Investment Guneet Rana and Affirmative Investment Management partner Kate Temby discuss all things responsible investing – what it is, how manager build responsible investing strategies, and how advisers can find solutions to meet their clients’ needs.

FS Sustainability Senior Journalist Rose Mary Petrass joins to discuss our action-packed month of May, the issues she's looking into and the news shaping our coverage going forward.