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Resource constraints could render pension funds insolvent

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... carbon emission policies up to US$8tr by 2030, according to Climate Change Scenarios - Implications for Strategic Asset Allocation. If the international community's mitigation response to carbon emission is strong, the industries that would be worse ...

PRI work stream to address systemic sustainability barriers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... including benchmarks, performance periods, portfolio turnover and fee structures Portfolio structure and strategic asset allocation - to explore new approaches in the light of the financial crisis, including links to sustainability issues Externalities ...

Developing methods for monitoring impact investment returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... extent so that we know that just as other funds are watching the performance of other assets in the traditional asset allocation, so we have trusted funds that are watching the fund of performance on environ and social performance. We won't stop performing ...

NAB Asset Servicing developing ESG overlay tool

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... transparency. At the moment, FundEdge provides reporting solutions including counterparty exposure reporting and asset allocation analysis reporting, but NAB Asset Servicing has said that it is planning to offer an ESG reporting service as part of FundEdge ...

Responsible investment in The Asian Century

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... plus," Dougherty said. "What the institutions struggle with is that 10 year hedge fix - by doing a different asset allocation, can institutions step up in sufficient scale to make different types of investments than they have in the past as a hedge to ...

Sustainable investing needed as global economy transforms

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... the investment decision making process, risk management framework and governance, factor-based, thematic and asset allocation approaches and mandate design for asset managers. Predicated upon the framework is an acceptance that the global economy and ...

Investors conducting climate change risk assessments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... have made changes to their strategy as a result of those assessments. That number may seem low, but shifting asset allocation is an involved process. "What [respondents] are saying is that based on their assessment of climate risk, there are changes ...

IIGCC urges greater energy efficiency for EU property sector

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... overall energy consumption by as much as 11% by 2020, IIGCC said. The property sector represents an average 5.5% of asset allocation for institutional investors, and those investors are exposed to long-term risks of environmental issues. There are several ...

Investors to call on ERSB to investigate carbon asset risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... This exposure is replicated in other European indices, by companies, in bank loan books and in the strategic asset allocation decisions taken by institutional investors. At present regulators are not monitoring the concentration of high carbon investments ...

Australian Ethical names new chief investment officer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... Australian Ethical, he worked for Macquarie Group, Credit Suisse, Mellon and Mercer covering strategic and tactical asset allocation, sell-side and buy-side research and portfolio construction as well as asset consulting and rating agency process management. ...