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RIAA awards Responsible Investment Certification to Mirova fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... digitisation of the global economy and electronic payments." The fund focuses on long-term megatrends such as reducing carbon emissions and improving sustainability and is benchmarked to deliver returns over the the MSCI World Index over three months ...

ASEAN green bond issuance reaches US$7.8bn: Climate Bond Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... growth paths across the region," Kidney said. "Watch this flower blossom. Action now, to re-start economies on a lower carbon pathway, is the key to avoiding a climate crisis and the associated costs of crisis response and bring about the huge benefits ...

Green tech can fuel net-zero transition, stimulus: ClimateWorks Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... of those that are best practice at the moment. In parallel, there should be a push to invest in the development of zero carbon technologies that are available in the next decade." The report points to existing technologies in heavy-emitting sectors such ...

Climate risk assessment impacts on small, mid-cap portfolios: Fairlight AM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... underwriting insurance, equity investors increasingly need to consider the regulatory and reputational risk of corporate carbon emissions when allocating capital. This is no longer just a focus for large-cap asset managers, with a greater number of small ...

Coronavirus forcing companies to virtual AGMs, full proxy voting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... closely," said Brynn O'Brien, ACCR executive director. "I imagine that there will be a push for AGMs to become virtual. From a carbon emissions and cost perspective, those things are good, but it needs to be counterbalanced by a greater formalisation ...

ANZ companies report board level climate oversight, more needed: CDP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... region, CDP said. "I think for the region as a whole, I would cite the action we are seeing in New Zealand, with its Zero Carbon Bill, for example," said Fredrik Andersen, assistant manager - corporations and supply chains, CDP in Hong Kong. "We are ...

Forum360 highlights case for virtual shopping for fund managers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... Forum360 also describes itself as pro-ESG, in that it delivers a scalable, time saving, cost effective solution with a carbon footprint no more than 7% of physical meetings, according to calculations performed by the University of New South Wales, Hirst ...

Commonwealth Bank provides sustainability-linked finance to Wesfarmers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... through a commitment to increase Indigenous employment opportunities, and enhanced environmental outcomes, through reduced carbon emission intensity," CBA said. CBA's Group Executive for Institutional Banking & Markets, Andrew Hinchliff, says the social ...

Australia bears sovereign risk with fossil fuel dependence: Beyond Ratings

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... Countries such as Australia that heavily depend on fossil fuels are likely to be more impacted when reaching targets for a zero-carbon global economy, given expected structural changes in the economy, according to Beyond Ratings, a division of London ...

PGIM charts rise of corporate "profit with purpose" mindset

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... "Engaging with companies reveals which management teams are positioning their companies to the risks of the transition to a low-carbon economy, which ones face reputational risk, which management teams are overly aggressive in reporting cashflows, which ...