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A4S to address sustainability, disclosure at World Congress of Accountants

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... mainstream fund managers." A4S also has a network of pension fund trustee chairs to share knowledge around climate change risk and mitigation and sustainability issues more generally. "That appreciation of the financial materiality that these issues ...

CAER urges investors to consider ESG risks of cannabis companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018  |  NEWS
With Canada and several large American states legalising the recreational use of cannabis, responsible investors should look to establishing policies addressing the emerging cannabis industry, according to CAER. In a recent article, CAER's Jacob Laurent ...

Diverse boards can provide "profitability moat" to future returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018  |  NEWS
... profitability and stability of earnings. So, finding companies that can sustain profitability over time is critical to achieving risk-adjusted returns," said Kathryn McDonald, head of sustainable investing, AXA IM Rosenberg Equities. While the most profitable ...

ACSI names Kate Griffiths to executive manager role

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018  |  NEWS
... long-term investors." Griffiths started this week, and came to ACSI from BHP, where she is currently the head of governance, risk and audit committee and disclosure, and a company secretary. Griffiths was formerly a Senior Associate at Blake Dawson (now ...

GPIF selects S&P Down Jones Indices for ESG benchmarks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018  |  NEWS
... economies." The indices are "designed to reduce exposure to high-carbon companies in a systematic way, while maintaining a risk/return profile similar to that of their benchmarks," according to S&P DJI. The indices adjust constituents' weights according ...

United Nations Development Programme launches SDG Impact

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018  |  NEWS
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has launched SDG Impact, an initiative designed to help channel private investment and capital into the achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). "As outlined in the Secretary-General's vision ...

ASIC report finds 17% of ASX300 identify climate as material risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2018  |  NEWS
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has issued its first report on climate risk disclosures by ASX300 companies. While the statistics discussed in the report are familiar to those who have read similar reports by investment bodies ...

Future Business Generation outlines Millennial climate risk concerns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2018  |  NEWS
Future Business Generation has called on the superannuation industry to provide more sophistication in climate risk assessment and management, on behalf of Millennials that will retire in the post-2030 world. Oshadee Siyaguna, committee member of Future ...

Willis Towers Watson, MSCI launch Adaptive Capped ESG Universal Index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2018  |  NEWS
... ESG Universal Index invests in both developed and emerging markets with a diversified portfolio that is designed to spread risk and capital more evenly between stocks, while also investing in companies with strong and improving ESG factors. "We've seen ...

Local Government Super becomes signatory to Green Bond Pledge

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2018  |  NEWS
... that all bonds financing long-term infrastructure and capital projects need to address environmental impacts and climate risk, reflecting "the goals of the Paris agreement, and ask[ing] cities, county and state governments, and corporations to account ...