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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2019  |  NEWS
... bonds. We need to incentives investor, we need to incentives issuers. What you do is encourage the insurance companies, the pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, the large institutional investors, because that US$50 trillion is going to come from the ...

Market Forces lodges shareholder resolutions with Westpac, NAB, ANZ

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2019  |  NEWS
... (Australia), a not-for-profit community super fund with around 100,000 members managing over AUD$10 billion in assets, MP Pension (Denmark), a member-owned pension fund with over 130,000 members managing over AUD$25 billion in assets, Church of England ...

Climate change, ageing population to cause twin impacts: Actuaries Institute

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
... investment returns. It says there are consequences for individuals and businesses including health, general and life insurers, pension providers, investors, and emergency services and governments. The report notes that it is forecasted that heatwaves ...

ACCR files shareholder resolution with BHP over industry associations

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
... (Australia), a not-for-profit community super fund with around 100,000 members managing over AUD$10 billion in assets, MP Pension (Denmark), a member-owned pension fund with over 130,000 members managing over AUD$25 billion in assets, Church of England ...

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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
... banks and insurance companies to sizeably increase the availability of green capital," Kidney said. "It also provides pension funds with the increasing confidence of their role as long term supporters of the leaders in this economy wide shift towards ...

Australian funds join international controversial weapons call

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... PRI Collaboration Platform. "Aligning investor portfolios to established values and norms is becoming the new normal for pension funds and other institutional investors alike," said Sabine Dobeli, CEO at Swiss Sustainable Finance. "The fact that our ...

Accounting for or managing: experts debate managing impact at RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
... seeking to measure impact, said Piet Klopp, senior advisor responsible investment at PGGM Investments. PGGM is a EUR 215 pension fund service provider, and administers pensions to 4.2 million participants. Klopp is developing PGGM's 20 billion euro "investing ...

A4S to address sustainability, disclosure at World Congress of Accountants

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... their shareholders around sustainability issues, particularly the 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. ...

GPIF selects S&P Down Jones Indices for ESG benchmarks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018  |  NEWS
The Government Pension Investment Fund for Japan (GPIF) has selected two carbon efficient indices from S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI) as the benchmark for their ESG investment strategy. S&P DJI has launched the S&P Global Carbon Efficient Indices include ...

US activists target banks over finance to for-profit prisons, detention centres

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
... Sacramento Bee that he would initiate a review of private prison companies to ensure that the companies did not violate the pension fund's requirement of respect for human rights. The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) has received ...