T. Rowe Price appoints ESG Specialist
Global investment management firm, T. Rowe Price has appointed Caroline Ramscar as ESG investment specialist for the APAC region.
With 20 years’ experience in financial markets, the Sydney-based Ramscar will play a key role in representing T. Rowe Price’s responsible investment and corporate governance teams with clients, prospects, and consultants on environment, social and governance considerations in the region.
She will also support the firm’s impact suite of products, which includes investment strategies across equities and fixed income that seek to deliver positive societal and environmental impact as well as financial returns.
Before joining T. Rowe Price, Ramscar spent 10 years at Legal & General Investment Management in London, including the past five years as head of sustainability solutions. She also sat on several internal and external ESG committees and industry working groups.
AustralianSuper
AustralianSuper, Australia’s largest superannuation (pension) fund is continuing its international expansion with six new senior UK appointments to manager. The fund has $300 billion in member assets invested outside of Australia, with more than $40 billion is invested in the UK and Europe.
The fund believes that these appointments will play a pivotal role in helping the fund develop and implement its international investment model.
The appointments are:
- Carl Astorri, head of investments, Europe
- John Normand, head of investment strategy
- Sujay Shah, head of internal government portfolios
- Deborah Gilshan, head of ESG and stewardship, Europe
- William Manfield, head of group risk, international
- Amanda Mitchell head of corporate affairs, Europe
Aquila Clean Energy APAC
- Clean energy platform, Aquila Clean Energy Asia Pacific (ACE APAC) has appointed Dennis Freedman to be the managing director Australia and New Zealand region to help drive clean energy business in the region.
- The platform – known to fund, develop, build and operate solar PV, wind power and battery storage assets across the region hopes to achieve its ambitions of expanding investment and business growth from the region.
- Mr Freedman spent 15 years in the industry and will be directing the company’s expansion by hiring a local team of experts with expertise in clean energy and asset management.
- “The ANZ clean energy landscape presents a promising growth market for ACE APAC. The Australian federal government has set an ambitious target of 82 per cent renewable energy by 2030, creating opportunities for us to actively invest in and contribute to that goal,” Mr Freedman said.
- “The New Zealand government is developing sectoral strategies such as the renewable energy work program that will serve as key inputs to the net zero carbon emissions goal by 2050.”
- It looks like the hiring-spree has already born fruit with Damien Hegarty hired as project development director and other appointments expected soon.
ClarkeHopkinsClarke Architects
ClarkeHopkinsClarke Architects has jumped on a promotions train with several recent appointments – most notable of which is ESD specialist Sindy Bowlen (Education) to Associate.
A certified passive house designer and sustainability leader at the carbon neutral BCorp, Bowlen is focused on “ healthy communities in harmony with the natural environment”.
“The buildings we design have such influence on the people that inhabit them every day, now and in the future,” Bowlen said. “We have this great opportunity to shape the environment in which we live and learn and work and by embedding environmentally sustainable design features we can use them as educational tools that shape people’s everyday priorities and behaviour.”
The education team specialises in designing schools as community hubs, allowing students, staff, families, and communities alike to use the sustainably designed facilities for out-of-hour use.
Among other recent promotions is for Andrew Amos who is now senior urban designer. Six architects have also taken on senior architect roles: Victoria Dragas (mixed-use), Tanya Banagala (health), and in Education Han Chua, Michael Litton, Karin Allen and Phil Ng.
Taronga Ventures partners with Deloitte
Taronga Ventures and Deloitte has recently published a paper on the status of technology deployment within real estate and infrastructure or real assets to achieve sustainability outcomes.
The paper details how real asset owners, investors, managers, and occupiers are using technology to take the next step in their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) journeys and achieve related goals and ambitions.
Some ESG technologies examined in the paper includes:
- Amazon’s second headquarters was constructed with low carbon concrete from CarbonCure – a technology that injects industrial waste CO2 into the concrete mix, saving an estimated 1110 tonnes of CO2
- a temporary COVID-19 hospital built by Spacecube for Monash Health – constructed in just 15-hours and with negative air pressure to function like a respiratory ward
- PGIM Real Estate was able to remotely inspect their development in Shanghai, using reality capture technology OpenSpace, to deliver better governance of the construction project