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APRA encourages entities to perform stress-test for climate-related risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2017  |  NEWS
... In the meantime, we encourage entities to perform their own stress tests that consider such scenarios. APRA's risk management standard CPS220 requires entities to test for key risks, so if factors related to climate change are key business risks, it ...

ACSI publishes revised Governance Guidelines, includes new ESG themes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2017  |  NEWS
... Labour and human rights- we've had a number of issues over the last two years where companies have disappointed in their management within their workforce and supply chain. If you look at corporate culture, the banking sector is providing an example ...

Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility joins Deloitte

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2017  |  NEWS
... covers workplace health and safety, sustainability (climate risk and adaptation, and low carbon transition and energy management), crisis, and safety leadership, culture and wellbeing. "From the Deloitte perspective, number one, the culture of the organisations ...

CEFC invests $200m into QIC Shopping Centre Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2017  |  NEWS
... QSCF Fund Manager Michael Fattouh. "This partnership with CEFC presents a unique opportunity to align QSCF's capital management strategy that seeks to diversify its sources of funding with Global Real Estate's broader ESG ambitions to drive sustainability ...

Fie, fi, foe, or friend? Consider the relationship between investors, boards: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  SUNDAY, 19 NOV 2017  |  NEWS
... deforestation, palm oil, looking at large scale agriculture, looking at a lot of things." Michael Walsh, CEO of UCA Funds Management, highlighted his fund's experience in organizing campaigns targeting social justice issues. UCA Funds Management has ...

ESG integration comes into its own in fixed income portfolios: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  SUNDAY, 19 NOV 2017  |  NEWS
... Strategist - ESG, PIMCO; Mervyn Tang, Vice President ESG Research, MSCI; Yen Wong, Head of Credit Research, Altius Asset Management; Moderator: Laurence Davison, Managing Editor, Kanga News. Not pictured: Tessa Dann, Associate, Funding and Liquidity ...

EVs, autonomous vehicles, transport as a service to disrupt cities, economy: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  SUNDAY, 19 NOV 2017  |  NEWS
... company or distributors, or heavy manufacturing which depends on the equipment, fleets, and vehicle financiers, fleet management businesses. These are all second, third order derivatives that are going to be hit by these changes." Carl Weatherley-White ...

Strong consumer demand for responsible, ethical super and investment: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 NOV 2017  |  NEWS
... with responsible investment more than quadrupling over the past 3 years and nearly half of Australia's assets under management now being invested through responsible investments" said RIAA's CEO Simon O'Connor. "As more Australians show a desire for ...

RIAA annual conference to discuss how responsible investment will shape future economy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2017  |  NEWS
... maturing of the responsible investment market, the focus of the industry is shifting from justifying the case for ESG-management techniques on how to use the tools to allocate capital and shape the future Australian economy. Simon O'Connor, RIAA CEO ...

ANZ Bank identifies climate change as component within credit risk, talks TCFD guidelines in 2017 Annual Review

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2017  |  NEWS
... a material risk to its business in its 2017 Annual Review. ANZ has provided further details of its carbon strategy, management, metrics and targets as aligned with the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) in its 2017 Annual Review. ...