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Experts warn of trustees' climate change litigation risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... Conference result in a global agreement with hard commitments from countries to reduce emissions to cap global warming at 2 degrees C, there will be a significant impact on the amount of fossil fuels that can be extracted. This will have a material impact ...

Climate change impacts on investments "inevitable": Mercer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... surprising conclusions in the report is the finding that under a scenario in which global temperature increases are capped at 2-degrees Centigrade, there are no negative return implications for long-term diversified investors at a total portfolio level ...

CDP, We Mean Business partner for Road to Paris

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... their emissions reduction targets to CDP, but to date, those targets are not yet strong enough to limit warming to below 2 degrees C. What that initiative is particularly focused on is raising the ambition of the target so they help companies to set ...

Local Government Super appoints second woman to board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... heritage, according to her LinkedIn profile, and has served as a councillor at Woollahra Council since 2012. Morris has degrees in Law and Economics, and is a certified financial planner with more than 30 years' experience in financial services. He was ...

Westpac commits to recruiting 400 Indigenous university interns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... have graduated from university have taken permanent roles within the banking group. "We have had interns from a range of degrees and education areas, and they can step into a wide range of roles in the bank," Toohill said. "It could be an IT tech role ...

APRA adds materiality to trustees' risk management declaration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... different risks, not just climate related risks, and those risk factors may be influencing institutional investors to varying degrees in their decisions as to whether they should exit those investments, and/or make new investments elsewhere, invest money ...

ClimateWorks Australia: Australia can decarbonise by 2050

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... other countries also act to reduce their emissions in line with what is needed to avoid global warming of more than two degrees, Australia can play its part while sustaining rapid economic growth," said Frank Jotzo, director of ANU Crawford School's ...

IGCC launches Perfect Storm Pension Fund video project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... investment portfolios, but there is still a lack of understanding of the possible impacts of containing global warming to two degrees centigrade, or even more warming, Fabian said. "The most challenging issue is still the understanding of trustees about ...

IGCC welcomes CCA draft report on emissions targets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... was to play its part in concerted international action to limit the increase in global temperatures to no more than 2 degrees Celsius (above pre-industrial levels)," according to a statement from CCA chair Bernie Fraser. The CCA review notes that at ...

ACSI hire Gordon Hagart as new chief executive officer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... with Greenhill & Co. in London, and also worked as an investment consultant in Zurich. He holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in geophysics from the University of Cambridge. Outgoing CEO Byrne led ACSI through a highly successful period, and Noonan ...