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Swiss Re hedges wind risk for Infigen Energy wind farms

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
Swiss Re Corporate Solutions has written a wind risk hedge for a portfolio of wind farms owned by Infigen Energy, covering six locations in three states and an excess of 500 megawatts of capacity. Jamie Summons, Swiss Re Corporate Solutions' Head of ...

Early stages for ESG-factor investing: Northern Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... return, according to Northern Trust. Wayne Bowers, CEO, CIO Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific at Northern Trust Asset Management Wayne Bowers, chief executive officer and chief investment officer for Europe, the Middle East, Africa and ...

BNP Paribas launches ESG reporting tool

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... performance at BNP Paribas Securities Services. The increased awareness of ESG concerns is manifested by a growing number of asset managers integrating ESG analysis in equity portfolios, Gayer said. As a result, BNP Paribas has been working with clients ...

Experts warn of trustees' climate change litigation risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... tools to augment their engagement work with pension funds over the climate risks in investment portfolios. In April, the Asset Owners Disclosure Project (AODP) and Client Earth launched a project at challenging pension fund trustees and managers around ...

Climate change impacts on investments "inevitable": Mercer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... Investing in a Time of Climate Change, a follow up on its 2011 study, Climate Change Scenarios - Implications for Strategic Asset Allocation, which found that institutional investors could be hit by economic costs of carbon emission policies up to US$8tr ...

ANZ to partner with AWA in SE Asia program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... the South East Asian region, McKeown added. ANZ does finance infrastructure and other water projects, but water crosses asset and commodity sectors in ways that other assets do not, noted Christina Tonkin, ANZ managing director of global loans and advisory. ...

Expert panel discusses CSR practices in action

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... level of risk you have." MacLeod noted that, as an example, social licence to operate can have dramatic impacts on a mining asset. "Social risk is the mining sense - the above ground, outside the fence risk - is the one area of risk that has the ability ...

ANZ issues $600m green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... property buildings in Australia, New Zealand and parts of Asia, ANZ said. "We've identified initially a good mix of around 20 asset which are eligible," said Paul White, global head of debt syndicate at ANZ. "Most of those are wind project assets - around ...

NFPs must align investments with mission: Koda Capital

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... philanthropists, family offices and non-profits, Knowles said. The white paper is not proscriptive, nor does it model specific asset allocations or potential portfolio strategies, which was a deliberate choice, Knowles said. "I have a lot of experience ...

LGS joins Portfolio Decarbonization Coalition

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... United Nations Environment Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) the fourth National pension fund of Sweden, AP4, Europe's largest asset manager Amundi and CDP. In addition to LGS, the UK Environment Agency Pension Fund and the French pension fund for civil servants ...