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Climate risk warning on government bond yields

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2022  |  NEWS
... of fixed income holdings by asset owners like super funds, and it is more challenging to engage on concerns like climate risk policy and physical and transition risk management because that involves speaking to governments, rather than individual companies. ...

UniSuper caps future investment in fossil fuel

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2022  |  NEWS
... more than 10% of revenue from the extraction and production of thermal coal. UniSuper has issued its fifth annual climate risk report, detailing the $108 billion super fund's progress towards its net zero 2050 target and activities around climate risk ...

Podcast: Managing climate and sustainability megatrends with Terence Jeyaretnam

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2022  |  NEWS
In this week's episode of The Greener Way, we speak with Terence Jeyaretnam, EY's APAC leader and partner for climate change and sustainability. Jeyaretnam explains how a career that started as an environmental engineer led him to develop his expertise ...

APRA chair highlights challenges of climate risk assessment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2022  |  NEWS
... credit, market, liquidity and operational risks, adds to this complexity." APRA r ecently released the results of a climate risk self-assessment survey which found that almost 40% of banks, insurers and superannuation funds say climate-related events ...

HESTA ups the ante on AGL, Santos on climate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2022  |  NEWS
... using active ownership with emissions-intensive companies to help drive down emissions in the portfolio and manage climate risk." In 2021, HESTA introduced an engagement escalation framework for its work with emissions-intensive companies through its ...

Future Fund, UniSuper hire ESG execs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2022  |  NEWS
... manager. Barns joins the fund from the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors where she has been specialising in climate risk and providing comprehensive research to super funds on how companies approach climate change, decarbonisation and transition ...

Climate skills development needed: University of Technology Sydney

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2022  |  NEWS
... networks and industry bodies like AIST - identified as being most important were reporting and disclosure, followed by climate risk management. Also important were customer and client engagement on climate issues and understanding investment opportunities ...

Podcast: Finding solutions to meet Net Zero 2050 with Viola Lutz

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2022  |  NEWS
... The Greener Way, we speak with Viola Lutz, head of ISS ESG climate solutions. Lutz discusses how ISS ESG approaches climate risk and climate solutions, why quantitative ESG ratings alone aren't a silver bullet and why we have to use a variety of weapons ...

No ESG drag seen in performance test results

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2022  |  NEWS
It is not apparent that MySuper funds that use ESG investing strategies are failing the MySuper performance test under the Your Future, Your Super legislation. As reported in sister publication Financial Standard, five MySuper products have failed the ...

VFMC hires ex-BHP ESG head

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2022  |  NEWS
... that broadly map to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Those priority themes cover governance and culture, climate risk management, modern slavery, human rights, ethical supply chains and labour standards, occupational health and safety, and ...