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APRA flags extension of climate vulnerability asssessment to super, insurance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2022  |  NEWS
... transition climate risks," Rowell said. "Significantly, they highlight that these impacts are uneven across regions and business sectors, and some segments of banks' lending portfolios are exposed to relatively higher risk. "In other words, the system ...

Altius Asset Management publishes first impact report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2022  |  NEWS
... and stewardship Matthew Moore. "This is just one of the pillars that we're really trying to implement across the business, shown where outcomes are, such as community and social values," Moore said. "This impact report shows outcomes from a social ...

MAS sustainability adviser speaks to Sinagpore/Australian collaboration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 NOV 2022  |  NEWS
... movement towards net zero." McBain pointed to Singapore's Green Plan 2030, which outlines roles for "green government, green business and green citizens." The Green Plan 2030 takes a whole of economy approach to decarbonization, including a carbon tax ...

Government commits to establishing green finance standards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2022  |  NEWS
... finance market and our capital markets must have a common set of standards around which we can assess the performance of business. "Unless our capital markets have a common language and a common set of standards, we are not going to get the most efficient ...

CareSuper, Yarra Capital fill ESG roles

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 OCT 2022  |  NEWS
... teams to support best practise ESG integration into investment processes. Prior to joining Yarra, Kuo ran a consulting business, advising fund managers and family offices on ESG matters and was previously chief impact officer at Impact Investment Group ...

Budget spotlights climate, gender and long-term development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2022  |  NEWS
... the need to lift critical long-term drivers of the economy - the focus on women and climate change as productivity and business investment issues is quite interesting," said Andrew Petersen, CEO of the Business Council on Sustainable Development Australia ...

Andrew Hagger leaves Tattarang

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2022  |  NEWS
After three years in the role, Andrew Hagger has stepped down as chief executive of Twiggy Forrest's Tattarang and the Minderoo Foundation. In an announcement late yesterday, the private investment group said Hagger has decided to transition out ...

Less than 20% of ASX200 disclose financial impacts of climate risk: PwC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2022  |  NEWS
... "Companies need to inventory those emissions through the whole supply chain to assess what they've got and to forecast the business impacts," Stubbins said. "There is a lot of methodologies that's been developed industry by industry so there's no consistency ...

New Forests African forestry fund receives US$200m in investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2022  |  NEWS
... programme, will offer technical assistance to AFIP by offering technical assistance, including helping to identify and develop business models around target investments to "demonstrate a different model of working with plantations that provides tangible ...

Missouri pulls BlackRock mandate in anti-ESG move

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2022  |  NEWS
... inclusion, and equity. Also in August, Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar banned local and state government entities doing business with firms that "boycott" fossil fuels, including Blackrock, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan among others.