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Hong Kong regulators establish sustainable finance steering group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... Bureau, the Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau (FSTB), Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX), the Insurance Authority and the Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Authority (MPFA). The group will examine policy and regulatory issues in ...

Property Council of Australia develops platform for modern slavery data

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... property sector. "At this stage, we're about to launch two more industry specific standards, relating to the healthcare insurance sector and the energy utility sector," Bernhardt said. "The idea behind that is to standardise the self-assessment questionnaire. ...

Financial services industry addressing leadership in uncertain times: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2020  |  NEWS
The investment, banking and insurance industries are in a position to lead the responses to a range of broad challenges, including climate change and COVID-19. Kirstin Hunter, managing director, Future Super The Responsible Investment Association Australasia ...

Climate risk assessment impacts on small, mid-cap portfolios: Fairlight AM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... consideration in equity markets today is the corporate contribution to greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs). In the same manner that insurance companies consider climate risks when underwriting insurance, equity investors increasingly need to consider the ...

Integrating ESG considerations in securities lending programs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... smooths the peaks. Short selling is also a big market. You have the full spectrum of investors - ETFS, mutual funds, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, etc." Many asset owners such as superannuation funds have established securities ...

Comment: hindsight is 2020

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... more, what will happen if there are more catastrophic weather events, what will happen if there are more claims for the insurance policies? The list of risk questions goes on. What is sometimes missed is that all these difficult risk questions don't ...

Amundi reports increased demand for fixed income ETFs, ESG integration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... in assets under management, and demand for Amundi's fixed income ETFs is coming from institutional investors such as insurance companies, who invest directly in fixed income, but are also seeking out fixed income ETFs to augment yield, to gain tactical ...

Analysis: climate change, Australia and the fierce urgency of now

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... bring the true accounting to the Australian people other than individual examples of damage. It is valid to look at insurance loss, loss of tourism business, loss of small businesses in the community that are associated with smaller rural and regional ...

Calculating the shorter, longer-term cost of bushfire

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... much as up to 1/4% per quarter," UBS said."Further, higher food prices (due to drought and bushfires) along with rising insurance premiums will likely see higher headline inflation, albeit much of this impact will likely be trimmed out of 'core' measures ...

Investing in insurance linked securities, integrating climate risk: Amundi

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
Investing in insurance linked securities (ILS) can provide return in an asset class that is uncorrelated to other assets, with fund manager Amundi running an ILS strategy that takes into account long-term climate risks and opportunities. Chin Liu, SVP ...