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Institutional investors put climate change into risk budget

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... change survey have decided to include climate change considerations in future risk management and/or strategic asset allocation processes. Through the Looking Glass: How Investors Are Applying the Results of the Climate Change Scenarios Study surveyed ...

Superannuation to heed call for greater disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... disclosure," said Pauline Vamos, CEO of ASFA. "It could be verifying that your investment actually reflect the asset allocation you disclose in the [product disclosure statement] PDS and reflect the level of risk disclosed in the PDS. That's a compliance-cum-audit ...

Climate change, human rights, social justice top 2012 agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... clean tech investments." Mercer will update its 2011 report Climate Change Scenarios - Implications for Strategic Asset Allocation, which estimated that institutional investors globally could stand to lose as much as US$8tr by 2030 because of the impacts ...

ESG analysis now part of mainstream investment management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
Environmental, social and governance risk considerations have evolved from a fringe area of investment management to become mainstream calculations. But asset owners and managers are seeking further integration into fixed income and cash asset allocations ...

Institutional investors begin analysis of carbon tax impact

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... strategy and chief economist at AMP Capital Investors said in a report this week that "it's hard to see significant asset allocation implications: the macro-economic implications are not particularly big; the impact of overall share market earnings is ...

Mercer: providing education and intervention on ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... portfolio and how to invest in potential sources of ESG alpha in a way that is commensurate with their strategic asset allocation goals. "Because we have a specialist team of 16 globally that works on ESG for our clients, we produce a lot of research ...

The impact of universal owners on sustainable investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... exposure to those externalities through active ownership strategies and integration of ESG factor analysis into asset allocation. Towers Watson cites the UNPRI statistic that the total cost of those three externalities exceeded US$2.5tr in 2008. Universal ...

Catholic Super hires investment manager for sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... researcher and project manager for Mercer's February report, Climate Change Scenarios - Implications for Strategic Asset Allocation, which found that the impacts of climate change and lack of international policy coordination could cost institutional ...

Mercer expands ESG consulting capability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011  |  NEWS
... appointment in the wake of last month's launch of their report, Climate Change Scenarios - Implications for Strategic Asset Allocation. The Mercer report estimates that institutional investors globally could stand to lose as much as US$8tr by 2030 because ...

Climate change a portfolio risk: Mercer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2011  |  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 ...