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Government reforms aim for increased super transparency

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... specific or stop anyone from doing business. "There's plenty of research out there that ESG investing is a pretty basic risk filter," Hume said. "We don't want it to be prescriptive... Trustees already have a higher responsibility; they already ...

Asset owner, engagement organisation in ESG hires

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... things may quiet down, but in fact we've experienced the opposite," he said. "The engagements have increased and climate risk has stayed very much on the agenda, if not accelerated in some companies." ACSI was deeply involved in communicating superannuation ...

Ban on waste export presents risks, opportunities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... implications for investors to dissect - many fund managers in the ESG sector have identified plastic waste in particular as a risk for companies to manage, and one that had particular implications during the COVID-19 pandemic. AMP Capital has a regular ...

PRI recgonises leaders for climate reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... climate-related risks to the Neuberger Berman board of directors. Neuberger Berman has also implemented a Climate Value-at-Risk Scenario (CVaR) analysis to all investment teams and offering client reporting on the results. That process began in 2019 ...

Super fund ESG option tops charts with investment returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... This means that UniSuper members in the GEO option "often combine it with other investment options to meet their investment risk preferences," the fund said. The fund option is labelled as having a "very high" risk level on UniSuper's website. When ...

Climate, worker rights rise up ESG agenda: Perennial

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... bushfires in late 2019/early 2020 and subsequent floods have brought climate change to the forefront for corporates. Climate risk and management of emissions is an area of engagement for Perennial, noted Emilie O'Neill, Perennial ESG analyst. "Obviously ...

QBE makes allocation to impact investment fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... Premiums4Good, social and environmental impact investments potentially have a different asset exposure and profile that may lead to risk or return diversification. At the time, QBE told FS Sustainability investments included allocations to the South ...

BlackRock details engagement activity in stewardship report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... diversity and inclusion as an area where BlackRock's engagement and voting practices have changed as well as the issue of climate risk and disclosures. This evolving mindset is expressed through BlackRock's proxy votes and announced future directions ...

Investors to develop tool to measure biodiversity impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... corporate across their activities. The tool will help investors to integrate impacts to nature and biodiversity into their risk assessments and research. The tool is also being designed to positively contribute to the required convergence towards more ...

Three lessons when assessing ESG risks

JOSHUA KENDALL  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... how environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks can have a material impact on the creditworthiness of a company. No risk assessment can be 100% certain and fraud is notoriously difficult to identify. We believe there are three lessons that we can ...