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S&P Global gains top sustainability expert

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
The high-profile Désirée Lucchese has quit MLC Life Insurance after just four months to join S&P Global as a sustainability solutions specialist. Lucchese said she is keen to return to the "complex, nuanced and ever-evolving space of investment data ...

Energy asset owners hungry for cover

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
Energy assets present a number of particular insurance risks - from natural catastrophe exposures, to technology risks, to serial defects manifesting across replicated parts over a very large asset. Renewables developers and influential asset owners ...

Disorderly transition may spark financial meltdown

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
Australian investors may face a global financial disaster as early as next year, risk researchers warn. Bert Kramer is head of climate research and ESG solutions at risk management firm Ortec Finance. He cautions that the upcoming revision of nationally ...

Woodside's US$2.35bn gamble raises doubts

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... light of its recent US$900 million bid for LNG producer Tellurian - and the permanence of the carbon capture and storage tech the ammonia project will employ. The ammonia deal will not reverse Woodside's emissions growth "even in the unlikely event ...

Australian Ethical scores gold, others fall off charts

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... data highlights that not all sustainable options are as alike as a layperson might assume. Top performers benefitted from tech exposure, while clean energy lagged due to poor investor sentiment. "ESG is hard to define," Aman Ramrakha, executive director ...

Systems thinking to drive alpha, tackle systemic threats

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... the main drivers of investment 'alpha' in this portion of the twenty first century," Urwin said. Investors are turning to tech to tackle this problem, but worry it is not yet mature enough. 38% of investors see AI and machine learning as potentially ...

Aus funds hit by outflows, global gains for passive ESG

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
Latest fund data show ESG funds were hit hard by outflows in the June quarter, but some strategies and fund managers are thriving. Australia and New Zealand sustainable funds suffered $1.2 billion in outflows (US$800 million) in the three months to ...

ESG safe from layoffs in tight jobs market

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
Amidst mass redundancies, ESG roles remain safe - for now. However, job seekers face fierce competition in an employer-driven market with slow recruitment processes and rampant ghosting. A shortage of ESG pros coupled with keen demand for specialist ...

Rest awards private equity mandate to TowerBrook Capital

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
Rest has awarded a US$75 million ($112.15 million) mandate to transatlantic investment manager TowerBrook Capital Partners, for its Delta private equity impact fund. The Delta fund will invest in mid-sized private companies that are expected to generate ...

RIAA warns against carbon capture

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... spending on CCS, a process for trapping carbon dioxide and sequestering it in deep underground reservoirs. Most recently, tech giant Microsoft told FS Sustainability that CCS is key to meeting its carbon reduction goal despite the proviso that the technology ...