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Governance Institute releases climate change risk disclosure guide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... have clarity on the way forward." The starting point for firms is to understand the scope of potential risks, Motto said. "Events that are happening here and now are certainly materialising those risks for organisations, in terms of climate change risk," ...

Comment: hindsight is 2020

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... will happen to investments if sea levels rise by a metre or more, what will happen if there are more catastrophic weather events, what will happen if there are more claims for the insurance policies? The list of risk questions goes on. What is sometimes ...

Small, mid-caps list governance, social as top ESG concerns: Perennial

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... financial regulator putting on restrictions on remuneration. It will be interesting to see the shift this year given the events of the last 12 months." The first year of reporting on modern slavery exposures as part of the Modern Slavery Act may also ...

BetaShares ethical ETFs surpass $1 billion funds under management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... particular over those three months. I don't believe that it is a coincidence that this has happened during the bushfire events. The growth rate for these funds have been faster than any other BetaShares ETF over this period." ETHI was launched in January ...

Calculating the shorter, longer-term cost of bushfire

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... these risks. "As global temps rise, you would see particularly southern Australia have less rain, with more extreme weather events, floods, storms, droughts," Oliver said. A natural outworking of more extreme droughts gives us the situation where we ...

Investing in insurance linked securities, integrating climate risk: Amundi

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... "It's not something that happens over night, but it's a long term trend. We don't want to have any overreactions to any events in any particular year." Liu purchases ILS with a select group of counterparties, and integrates information from Amundi's ...

Investors considering their options in voting at Westpac AGM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... that ASA was set to have a meeting earlier this week with Westpac, but the meeting was postponed due to quickly moving events. "At the present time, we're just in correspondence essentially with Westpac over the date we're having a meeting," she said. ...

Incorporating climate risk into investing, finance, and insurance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... has worked with governments, businesses, and the farm industries to address the risks that come from extreme ecological events. He shares insights into how the global conversation is changing around how to deal with the impacts of climate change. Q ...

Ethical Investment Week to focus on "The Sustainability Revolution"

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2019  |  NEWS
The sixth annual Ethical Investment Week will focus on "The Sustainability Revolution" with a number of events in cities around Australia. Terry Pinnell, chair of the Ethical Advisers' Co-Operative Ethical Investment Week 2019 will be held during the ...

Insight Investment applies traffic light analysis to green, impact bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
... their governance? We have found some companies issuing green bonds, but they are subject o ongoing, high profile negative events. We consider that particular green bond non-consistent with the ethos of a green bond. We believe is important to consider ...