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Experts discuss impact of Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures guidelines

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 APR 2017  |  NEWS
... of climate risks by regulated entities, and give the consultation process to develop the draft recommendations by the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), companies and stakeholders such as investors should consider the information ...

APRA calls for stress-testing of climate change risks in regulated entities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2017  |  NEWS
... the role that regulators such as APRA have to play: the Paris Agreement, a report by the Financial Stability Board's Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures recommending a global, framework for improving a wide spectrum of climate-related ...

Principles for Responsible Investment discuss agenda for 2017

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2017  |  NEWS
... the real world. What does it change? We can start to capture some of that information." PRI consulted with the FSB's taskforce to develop a climate related reporting framework, Reynolds noted. The Principles for Responsible Investment will also restart ...

Stakeholders assess ESG policy priorities for Parliament

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... facilitate these reforms, the Governance Institute recommends that the government establish a Corporations Law and Governance Taskforce. However, wholesale reform of the Corporations Act may be made more complicated by a potential minority government ...

Companies advised to stress test climate change scenarios

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... on that and turn to the fact that the financial regulators are looking at his more closely and the Climate Disclosure Taskforce of the financial stability board are saying the same things - companies need to disclose this to investors and regulator who ...

Q&A: Richard Brandweiner, CIO First State Super

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
... area of impact investment? A: I sit on the Australian Advisory Board for Australia's part of the G8 Impact Investment Taskforce. It would be very easy for us to allocate small amounts of capital to impact investment, but the reality is that the impact ...

NAB launches Impact Investment Grant Program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... Australia, there is a foundational context that would seem to support the growth of the impact investing market - the taskforce cites Australia's strong, developed financial system, large institutional investor space such as superannuation funds, an ...

NSW develops first social impact investment policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... series of social impact investment roundtables and market sounding sessions, aiming to establish an intergovernmental taskforce on social impact investment, promoting understanding of the social impact investment market, improving government agency readiness ...

Impact Investing Australia hires Daniel Madhavan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... Delivering on Impact ', launched in September and auspices Australia's participation in the Social Impact Investment Taskforce established by the G8. "Australia faces some significant challenges around how to adequately fund our social services, and ...

Addis, Blackburn-Wright open impact investment firm

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... Australia will co-convene a local advisory board of an international initiative - the International Impact Investing Taskforce, while Addis will also convene the Global Learning Exchange - as a way of contributing to the public development of the impact ...