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Global digitalisation impacting environmental, social factors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
Digitalisation as an investment trend is gathering momentum, fuelled by developments in the last year and an "agent for positive change" for achieving social and environmental goals, according to Janus Henderson Investors. Digitalisation as a trend ...

What's in a name: evaluating the goals behind net zero targets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... mandate sits within Cbus' Climate Change Solutions allocation. Last year, Aware Super said it had cut the carbon emission exposures of its equities portfolios by 40% over the previous year through the introduction of carbon-constrained benchmarks. ...

Industry fund sets bar higher with Net Zero timing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
An industry superannuation fund has set the most ambitious climate change related target yet, aiming to attain a carbon neutral investment portfolio in nine years. The $12.8 billion NGS Super has set a target of carbon neutrality by 2030. The target ...

EISS Super takes on ESG risk analytics with State Street

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
EISS Super has implemented State Street's environmental, social and governance (ESG) Risk Analytics Solution. State Street is providing EISS Super customised ESG performance and risk management around carbon emissions data, from both the top down and ...

Investors seek renewable energy infrastructure: bfinance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... Zyp, Senior Director of bfinance's Australian office. "As more and more investors in Australia commit to net zero carbon emission by 2050, we expect the interest in renewables will only accelerate in order to meet stated carbon reduction targets. This ...

Real estate managers carry out decarbonisation strategies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
Real estate managers are continuing the trend of decarbonising their portfolios, with one manager announcing that a portfolio of real estate projects in the US has been certified net carbon zero, while another has set a net zero target. Lendlease in ...

Economist urges drastic action on climate change policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
Not having a strong federal policy on climate change and a pathway to move to zero carbon emissions by 2050 brings continued risk to Australia's economic growth long term, according to the head of one the leading economic think tanks. Danielle Wood ...

Calculating the social cost of carbon: Dimensional Fund Advisors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
The total cost of future damage caused by greenhouse gas emissions can be used to estimate a price as a basis for generating climate change policy as well as considering impacts on companies, according to Dimensional Fund Advisors. Joseph Chi, head ...

Super, fund manager lends muscle to net zero target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
A leading superannuation and managed fund provider has become the latest to set a net zero 2050 carbon target for its portfolio. Mercer Australia has committed to a target of net-zero absolute carbon emissions by 2050 for its Australian Funds and the ...

Property developer sets more ambitious timeline to net zero

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
A leading retail property owner and developer has brought its net zero carbon emissions targets forward by two years and committed to potentially doubling its rooftop solar panel generation as part of the process. Stockland has said it will have net ...