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What's in a name: evaluating the goals behind net zero targets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
Super funds and asset managers have announced commitments to remove risks of greenhouse gas emissions from their portfolios. These announcements have a shorthand - "net zero" or "carbon neutral" or "decarbonisation" - and have varying timelines to reach ...

Industry fund sets bar higher with Net Zero timing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
An industry superannuation fund has set the most ambitious climate change related target yet, aiming to attain a carbon neutral investment portfolio in nine years. The $12.8 billion NGS Super has set a target of carbon neutrality by 2030. The target ...

EISS Super takes on ESG risk analytics with State Street

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
EISS Super has implemented State Street's environmental, social and governance (ESG) Risk Analytics Solution. State Street is providing EISS Super customised ESG performance and risk management around carbon emissions data, from both the top down and ...

Real estate managers carry out decarbonisation strategies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... City and Los Angeles to follow as construction begins. "Lendlease and Aware Super share a philosophy that the built environment has immense capacity, and an obligation, for doing good," said Denis Hickey, Lendlease Americas CEO. "When we formed our partnership ...

Wholesale managed funds continue strong performance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
The median ESG wholesale managed fund has returned 6.6% p.a. over the past three years, but the top ESG managed fund has shown nearly three times that return, according to research from Rainmaker Information. The Australian Ethical Emerging Companies ...

New to market investors seeking ESG information from platforms

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... tag' those relevant ESG stocks for them," she added. COVID-related market volatility and the low interest rate environment were "important prompts" for first time investors entering the market, but there is more to the story, Guiamatsia said. "Even ...

Serving up meat's sustainability risks, opportunities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... very defensive, very closed off early on in our engagement, they have to a certain degree really been forced by the environment to shift. They've appointed chief sustainability officers, they've started issuing sustainability reports and we can ...

Hiring culturally diverse women improves organisational leadership

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... also said that I think we should shout out women's successes, and secondly, I believe that we should create the environment where women have a close circle of reliable women contacts such as connections, and we have to promote women role models for ...

Calculating the social cost of carbon: Dimensional Fund Advisors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
The total cost of future damage caused by greenhouse gas emissions can be used to estimate a price as a basis for generating climate change policy as well as considering impacts on companies, according to Dimensional Fund Advisors. Joseph Chi, head ...

We must approach public equities with an 'impact' mindset

KATHRYN MCDONALD, HEIDI RIDLEY  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... 'impact': does the investor and the investee company itself seek to create positive change for society or the environment? what is the social or environmental effect of the investment? does the investment help meet an unmet need? how many people ...