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FM Global to provide climate resilience discount

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... colleagues and communities. "The resilience credit is a response to our clients looking for more ways of managing climate related risk," said Greg Duncan, FM Global vice president client service manager Australian operations. Duncan noted that FM Global ...

Does Canberra's agenda align with sustainable investment?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... biodiversity - they're all areas that a group of investors have been looking at, working on and ben interested in from the material risk and opportunities it brings to the portfolio," Pettigrew said. "The way we're seeing the change of government is ...

APRA releases climate risk assessment results

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... according to the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA). APRA has published the findings of a voluntary climate risk self-assessment survey conducted across the entities APRA regulates. 64 medium to large institutions responded to the survey ...

Singapore to issue inaugural sovereign green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
Singapore will issue its first sovereign green bond - the Green Singapore Government Securities (Infrastructure). The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced that the green bond will shortly be launched via a syndicated book-building process ...

V-Square launches ESG index strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... that the conundrum for a lot of Australian asset owners is to be lower fees, better value for members, while taking less risk and integrating climate, and all of that still bringing performance," said V-Square co-founder and president Mamadou-Abou Sarr. ...

NGS Super divests from oil and gas producers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... introduced the modelling that we needed to perform across each individual holding to assess the two risks of stranded asset risk and physical asset risk, and we were also in discussions with our active managers, what their position was in terms of the ...

ESG product definitions a matter for legislation: ASIC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... regulators to build on what's happening elsewhere." Similarly, ASIC also believes that mandatory disclosure of climate risk should be legislated by government. "The question of whether or not mandatory disclosures will be introduced here in Australia ...

New Zealand XRB releases final climate reporting paper

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2022  |  NEWS
... Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) reporting framework, which focuses on four pillars - governance, risk management, strategy, and metrics and targets. The release of the consultation paper is "a significant milestone towards ensuring ...

ESG managed accounts drive strong growth: BT Panorama

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2022  |  NEWS
... that advisers could use to get access to the ESG diversified strategy. It fits well with the way they talk to clients and do risk profiling." Among the new managed accounts launched so far in this calendar year include those managed by Lonsec, Blackrock ...

Ausbil charts ESG activities and portfolio engagement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2022  |  NEWS
... quality." Ausbil performed climate scenario analysis against ASX200 companies for the third year, to assess companies against risk of physical impacts, disruption in supply chains and other indicators of resilience to make a holistic assessment that ...