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UNEP FI select Oliver Wyman, Mercer as expert advisers on TCFD-related project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2018  |  NEWS
... Financial Stability Board's (FSB) Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). "One of the buzzwords in the sustainable finance world is 'mainstreaming'," said Eric Usher, the Head of UNEP FI. "For us to achieve a sustainable financial ...

New Forests to sell carbon credits via Emissions Reduction Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017  |  NEWS
... shift in resource use and production that includes "replacement of fossil-based energy, fuels, and chemicals with more sustainable inputs from bioenergy, biofuels, bio-plastics, and bio-materials," according to New Forests' 2016 sustainability report. ...

CEFC, Australian Ethical Investment invest in Dexus Healthcare Wholesale Property Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017  |  NEWS
Dexus has completed the first round of equity raising for the environmentally sustainable Healthcare Wholesale Property Fund (HWPF). HWPF is an Australian-first portfolio of hospital and healthcare assets with an environmentally sustainable focus. HWPF ...

BetaShares launches Australian equities ethical ETF

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2017  |  NEWS
... exposure to a diversified portfolio of Australian companies that have been screened to preference companies engaged in sustainable business activities and to avoid companies engaged in activities deemed inconsistent with responsible investment considerations," ...

First State Super joins Australian Council of Superannuation Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2017  |  NEWS
... trillion in assets and own on average 10% of every ASX200 company. "We are committed to investing in ways that provide sustainable returns to our members and make a positive impact on the economy, the environment and the communities in which our members ...

APRA encourages entities to perform stress-test for climate-related risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2017  |  NEWS
... supervisory response to climate risk is aligned with global best practice. Summerhayes noted that he attended the Sustainable Insurance Forum meeting in late October in Kuala Lumpur. SIF is a network of leading insurance regulators and supervisors and ...

ACSI publishes revised Governance Guidelines, includes new ESG themes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2017  |  NEWS
... Davidson said. "For companies that are forward looking, we think that should aid in terms of the longer term to be sustainable in the longer term, in an investment sense. We have had some constructive discussion with a number of companies and have ended ...

CDP issues 2017 Climate Change Report for Australia/New Zealand companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2017  |  NEWS
... forest program in 2017. CDP noted that Brambles "has experienced new market opportunities through customer demand for sustainable products: between 2015 and 2016, customers using its carbon neutral products offset 8,114 tonnes of CO2, representing an ...

LBG Australia & New Zealand publishes Review of Community Investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2017  |  NEWS
... One of the companies that we do a lot of work with is Unilever, and they articulate a clear corporate message around sustainable living, a sustainable living plan which talks on the health and hygiene plan. They're seeing their sales not thru a bottom ...

ESG integration comes into its own in fixed income portfolios: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  SUNDAY, 19 NOV 2017  |  NEWS
... feedback and pressing issuers for the info you want to see." Wong and Sageser both said that while clients are demanding sustainable solutions, it has not been empirically confirmed that ESG performance is alpha-enhancing in fixed income portfolios. ...