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Incorporating climate risk into investing, finance, and insurance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
This article first appeared on sister site Industry Moves Rade Muslin is a climate risk expert from the US who has worked with governments, businesses, and the farm industries to address the risks that come from extreme ecological events. He shares ...

AMP Capital launches 2030 ESG strategy for real estate business

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... risk related questions, such as \when was the last time your property had a 1 in 100 year flood, what happened, did insurance cover it, ask all these questions, gathering the data, to feed into a model that will then be able to use." The methodology ...

Pricing, liquidity, standards challenge green bond market: Aviva Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2019  |  NEWS
... interest and investment purely by green bond funds investing in green bonds. You have to look to the wider market, at insurance companies. "But the problem has come up - where do green bonds price? There are some extra requirements around green bonds ...

Extreme weather increases through Autumn 2019: Actuaries Institute

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
... linked to a risk factor, Andrews said. "The next step could be combining the raw data with, for example, property damage insurance costs," he said. "You could get, link the data to bushfire damage, by getting bushfire costs and attaching it to the data ...

Companies increase ESG reporting, but "glaring gaps" remain: ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2019  |  NEWS
A greater number of ASX listed companies are providing more information around environmental, social and governance (ESG) material issues, but "glaring gaps" remain, particularly around workplace fatality statistics, according to research from the Australian ...

Brightlight Investment Management allocates to DPN Casa Capace

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2019  |  NEWS
... group managing director DPN Casa Capace is part of the DPN Group and a registered provider with the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). It aims to scale its disability housing model - multi-dwelling homes, with each side tailored to two-to-three ...

Australian Sustainable Finance Initiative sets working groups

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2019  |  NEWS
... and we set out to ensure that there are people who don't sit just within the responsible investment community, or just insurance, or just banking," said Simon O'Connor, co-chair of the Initiative and CEO of the Responsible Investment Association Australasia ...

Global issuance of green bonds tops $100 billion to date in 2019

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
... real economy, opens the door to brown-to-green transition of corporate assets and capex programs, and for banks and insurance companies to sizeably increase the availability of green capital," Kidney said. "It also provides pension funds with the increasing ...

Climate risk necessitates short and long term stress testing: Mercer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019  |  NEWS
... ways in which the sudden re-pricing event might impact the portfolio. It can be through a physical event which impacts insurance, like natural catastrophes. It could be about greater market awareness of climate risk, it could also could be about the ...

QBE joins Business Council for Sustainable Development Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019  |  NEWS
QBE Insurance has joined the Business Council for Sustainable Development Australia (BCSD Australia). Andrew Petersen, CEO, Sustainable Business Australia "We are pleased to welcome and work with QBE, one of the giants in the Australian insurance industry. ...