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First State Super targets 30% emissions reduction in equities portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... investment at First State Super. "We can't wait until 2030 or 2040.... We've always talked about climate change, we know it's a risk and now is the time to act, so all of those tools have helped us, but there's certainly a long way to go and things are ...

AustralianSuper names Tom Garcia head of financial crime

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... AustralianSuper in March 2017 as head of product and moved to his new position as of this month. Garcia reports to Paul Schroder, chief risk officer. Schroder moved to that role last November. As part of his new role, Garcia is responsible for complying ...

Australian Unity launches green bond fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... replacement in a responsible investment portfolio, for example. We want to manage the characteristics so that it gives a similar risk/return profile to an investor, with the flavour of impact in terms of the use of proceeds." The objective of the fund ...

Data enhances case for ESG as separate, interrelated factor to quality

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... investment managers have previously told The Sustainability Report that ESG considerations are part of their strategies to manage risk and long-term investment performance, and the quality of ESG data and analysis is improving, giving greater confidence ...

ESG data enhances value strategies: Maple-Brown Abbott

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... she said. "In 2018, I developed a standardised climate change framework, across the three strategies, to understand climate risk. The key differentiator is the scenario analysis, aligned with TCFD analysis." McKean identified three components to the ...

Climate change and public health cannot be viewed in isolation: UNGCNA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... potential to impact Australia's food security through crop damage, the report said. Further threats to public health lie with the risk of increased rates of infectious and non-infectious diseases linked to warmer global temperatures. The GCNA report ...

MSCI launches Real Estate Climate Value-at-Risk solution for investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... designed to assist real estate investors assess and manage their exposure to climate change. MSCI Real Estate Climate Value-at-Risk (VaR) provides a forward-looking and return-based valuation assessment to measure climate-related risks for real estate ...

Climate change, unclear policy response pose investment risk: JANA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... firm JANA is warning investors that the impact of climate change and unclear policy response by governments pose significant risk to return. Tim Conly, head of responsible investment research, JANA JANA has commissioned a study modelling climate-related ...

Fidelity International launches Sustainable Water and Waste Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... fund focuses on sustainable investment opportunities within the water and waste management sectors, while delivering "strong risk adjusted returns across the cycle by investing globally in companies involved in the design, manufacture, or sale of products ...

Transformational investment needed to address systemic risk: WEF

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... as the six critical systemic risks in the report, which was written before the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. Pandemic risk was integrated into the report for its release. The report was written in collaboration with Mercer, and uses case studies ...