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COVID-19 risks and impacts disclosure "unprecedented challenge": AICD

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
In a move to assist companies in reporting on the impacts of COVID-19, the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD), Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA ANZ) and CPA Australia have published a joint guidance on disclosure and ...

ESG integration "crucial" to credit investments: Janus Henderson

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into investment processes in fixed income and credit portfolios is "crucial" to risk management, according to Janus Henderson. L-R: Jay Sivapalan, head of Australian fixed interest; Ashley Kopczynski ...

SASB, GRI announce collaborative workplan for further understanding

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... stakeholders are demanding improved disclosure of information on sustainability impacts, including those likely to drive risk and opportunity in both the short and long term." Both organisations emphasise that independence is important to both GRI and ...

J.P. Morgan Asset Management launches ESG integration policy statement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... priorities will be governance, strategy alignment for the long term, human capital management, stakeholder engagement and climate risk. The Sustainable Investing team collaborated with a working group of 19 senior portfolio managers, research analysts ...

MSCI climate tool provides new data for private real estate assets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
MSCI has launched a new product designed to provide investors with deeper climate risk data around private real estate assets. MSCI Real Estate Climate Value-at-Risk (VaR) provides a forward-looking and return-based valuation assessment to measure climate-related ...

First State Super targets 30% emissions reduction in equities portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... investment at First State Super. "We can't wait until 2030 or 2040.... We've always talked about climate change, we know it's a risk and now is the time to act, so all of those tools have helped us, but there's certainly a long way to go and things are ...

AustralianSuper names Tom Garcia head of financial crime

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... AustralianSuper in March 2017 as head of product and moved to his new position as of this month. Garcia reports to Paul Schroder, chief risk officer. Schroder moved to that role last November. As part of his new role, Garcia is responsible for complying ...

Australian Unity launches green bond fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... replacement in a responsible investment portfolio, for example. We want to manage the characteristics so that it gives a similar risk/return profile to an investor, with the flavour of impact in terms of the use of proceeds." The objective of the fund ...

Data enhances case for ESG as separate, interrelated factor to quality

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... investment managers have previously told The Sustainability Report that ESG considerations are part of their strategies to manage risk and long-term investment performance, and the quality of ESG data and analysis is improving, giving greater confidence ...

ESG data enhances value strategies: Maple-Brown Abbott

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... she said. "In 2018, I developed a standardised climate change framework, across the three strategies, to understand climate risk. The key differentiator is the scenario analysis, aligned with TCFD analysis." McKean identified three components to the ...