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Northern Trust outlines social, environmental challenges to road ahead

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
Reimaging capitalism and reengaging with climate risk are two of the broad themes that will affect financial markets over the next five years, according to Northern Trust. Northern Trust has updated their capital market assumptions, forecasting global ...

Positive ESG impact linked to financial performance: Melior

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... return," said William Wu, portfolio manager at Melior. "It's the opposite. It's generated alpha, it's lowered risk of investment portfolio and it's doing well as well as doing good." Companies are also increasingly recognising that social ...

ESG scores linked to higher stock valuation: Bank of America

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... whereas labour practices, employee health and safety, and supply chain management has increased in importance. However, climate risk and greenhouse gas emissions remain important considerations. Chopra noted that if a global price on carbon emissions ...

Opinion: Australian super funds could benefit from US ESG policy move

RAEWYN WILLIAMS  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... regulator, APRA, is party to the cause. Since 2017, APRA's consistent position has been that climate change is a real, pervading risk to funds and managing these risks via "responsible investing" (ESG principles) is consistent with funds' obligation ...

Wesfarmers director to retire

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... of fellow directors and thank the shareholders for giving me the opportunity." Smith-Gander is a member of the Audit and Risk Committee and the Nomination Committee. At the Wesfarmers AGM, Michael Chaney will stand for re-election as director. He has ...

Superannuation funds accelerate climate action: ClimateWorks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... financial regulators to fight the economic damage of climate change has shown that setting reductions targets is viewed as a risk management activity, rather than something that's driven by moral duty." To date, the preferred response of most funds ...

ARENA, CEFC changes open door to CCS, hydrogen investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
The federal government will extend a fresh $1.62 billion to the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) to invest, and will change the legislative remit of ARENA and the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) towards investing in carbon capture ...

Climate change to bring more frequent, intense weather: IAG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... category 4 and 5 tropical cyclones, such as Cyclones Yasi, Debbie, Marcia and Damien. The report found that bushfire weather risk, including most catastrophic types of bushfires, will increase across almost all locations nationally, although there will ...

IIG launches alternative fund-of funds impact strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... private investors looking for impact investment options to help with diversification, quarterly yield, liquidity and attractive risk-adjusted returns. The Impact Alternatives Fund will target low correlation to listed equities, bonds and property, with ...

Rest climate change case pushes ahead

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... investment committee evidencing consideration of JANA building a capability to stress test portfolios for climate change risk to be submitted. McVeigh's case argues this was relevant to Rest's stress testing policy. A trial is set to take place ...