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Global fund manager joins Climate Action 100+

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... opportunities around climate change. And, we have asked our portfolio companies to report on how they are managing climate change risk using the guidelines promulgated by the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)." A total of 167 ...

Capital raisings, remuneration impact proxy vote: Dimensional

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... risks is also a topic of consideration for Dimensional. "Incentivising management to pay attention to climate-change related risk, in some ways we argue that it's part of the remit to begin with," Singh said. "If your future is impacted by climate ...

Integrating climate impacts in quant strategies: Acadian Asset Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... into its strategies and manages bespoke sustainable portfolios on behalf of clients as well. ESG data can be used to enhance risk adjusted return in both growth and value strategies, according to Matt Picone, vice-president and portfolio manager at Acadian ...

The future is now: the future of sustainable investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
As this most unusual year draws to a close, this roundtable presented a unique opportunity to gather a panel of experts from a diverse range of backgrounds - asset owners, asset managers, consultants and industry bodies - to discuss how sustainable ...

International sustainability accounting standards bodies to merge

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... sustainability-related risks and opportunities most likely to affect a company's financial condition, operating performance or risk profile, and Adams noted that there needs to be a coordinated stakeholder approach to integrating sustainable development ...

Industry super cuts emissions exposures by 40%

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
An industry superannuation fund has cut the carbon emission exposures of its equities portfolios by 40% over the previous year through the introduction of carbon-constrained benchmarks. Aware Super has created a new series of listed equities benchmarks ...

Social, economic consequences of climate change "devastating": Robeco

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... consequences of climate change in a business as usual scenario are expected to be "devastating," but mitigating investment risk based on backward looking data and not future transition is a challenge for investors, according to Robeco. Robeco recently ...

Evolution Mining links value generation to sustainability goals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... Evolution identified emerging climate-related risks as aligned to the TCFD framework, and included those emerging risks in their risk register. The annual report noted that "climate-related risks are actively reported, and targets have been developed ...

AGL, ARENA in $8m electric vehicle charging study

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... accelerate the commercialisation of the orchestration of EV charging by examining the key sources of uncertainty and investment risk such as the commercial model, technology approaches, customer behaviour and market structure, ARENA said. ARENA has previously ...

Investing for the day after tomorrow: Janus Henderson

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... goals are increasing, which counters longer held arguments that investing in line with ESG information brings concentration risk. "When I first started looking at this two years ago, our universe was much smaller," Seery said. "Within the last two years ...