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Majority of largest asset owners recognise risk of climate change: AODP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2017  |  NEWS
... that align with the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD): governance and strategy, portfolio risk management, and targets and metrics. Institutions are rated from AAA-A-rated leaders to D-rated institutions. The report finds that ...

IRRCi report analyses ESG integration behaviour of institutional investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2017  |  NEWS
... The report is based on an analysis of the investment practices of 70 institutional investors with total assets under management of US$19.9 trillion. "[The typology] will start to give the community a set of semantic tools and questions that will help ...

Australian Ethical Investment exceeds $2 billion in assets under management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2017  |  NEWS
Australian Ethical Investment has exceeded $2 billion in funds under management, a 100% increase since 2015. Phil Vernon, Australian Ethical Investment managing director For March 2017, the ethical investment and superannuation provider saw net inflows ...

Directors, senior executives have obligation to consider climate change: Norton Rose Fulbright

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2017  |  NEWS
Board directors and senior management must give proper consideration to the risks of climate change, "with a view to ensuring that these risks are incorporated into strategic decision making, and appropriate consideration is given to the need for disclosure ...

Investa Commercial Property Fund Issues $100 million certified green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2017  |  NEWS
... fully allocated against a portfolio of low carbon buildings in the ICPF portfolio, Investa said. The Investa Office Management Platform, which manages ICPF, has set a net zero carbon emissions target by 2040. Earlier this year, Investa Office Fund (IOF) ...

Sustainable Development Goals present "enormous opportunity" for business

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2017  |  NEWS
... influenza vaccine products, which account for 58% of its total revenue. Mirvac is involved through the development and management of green buildings, which account for 52% of its revenue. "We discovered that Australian constituents generated 4.9% of ...

Morphic Ethical Equities Fund has exceeded minimum target for IPO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2017  |  NEWS
... $38.5 million, ahead of its IPO later this month. Jack Lowenstein, co-founder and managing director, Morphic Asset Management Morphic Asset Management is the Morphic Ethical Equities Fund Limited (MEC), a new ethically screened global equity LIC. Morphic ...

IGCC, AIGCC publish investor disclosure guide aligned to TCFD recommendations

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2017  |  NEWS
... countries," said Pablo Berrutti, head of responsible investment Asia Pacific for Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFSGAM) and chair of the IGCC Disclosure Working Group which led the development of the guide. "Despite this, there has been ...

Experts discuss impact of Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures guidelines

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 APR 2017  |  NEWS
... risk, as part of APRA's evolving view on climate risks as part of the agency's "broader approach to prudential risk management and supervision." Australia is being impacted by both domestic and international developments that are guiding the legal views ...

Chart: CDP assessment of APRA-regulated entities' climate disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 APR 2017  |  NEWS
... from CDP's databases of responses for 2016. CDP grades companies out of 100 in four areas - disclosure, awareness, management and leadership, and range from a high of A to a low of D-. An F is a failure to provide sufficient evidence upon which to base ...