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Impax Asset Management makes case for fossil fuel divestment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... impact of fossil fuel divestment because there is a strengthening campaign seeking to persuade institutional investors to divest from fossil fuel-based assets as a way of protecting against the downside risk of climate change as well as the potential ...

Bill McKibben urges super funds to divest from fossil fuel

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... met with superannuation funds during his recent Australian tour, pressing the economic and moral case for investors to divest from fossil fuel companies. Bill McKibben, co-founder and chairman of the board of 350.org McKibben, the author of The End of ...

Greens call on Future Fund to divest from coal companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
The leader of the Australian Greens party has called for the Future Fund to divest its investments in coal companies. Senator Christine Milne "Earlier this year the Future Fund ditched its tobacco investments in response to a campaign led by the Greens," ...

VicSuper, SAS Trustee Corporation to divest from tobacco

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
VicSuper and the SAS Trustee Corporation (STC) have voted to divest their funds of holdings in companies that manufacture tobacco products. The $9.2 billion VicSuper said it will phase out investing in manufacturers of tobacco products from this year ...

NGOs, institutional investors seeking engagement pathways

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... Julian Poulter, AODP executive director. "The objective is certainly to increase low carbon investments and by implication, divest to a degree from fossil fuels and highly exposed assets. The strategy to get there is both going straight to the funds ...

Assessing fossil fuel value in an "unburnable carbon" world

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... believe there is a high probability of the unburnable carbon scenario occurring, then they must accept that they need to divest themselves of assets that have fossil fuel reserves, or experience a reduction in value. Under that scenario, risk reduction ...

Australian Ethical puts tobacco resolution to TOMRA AGM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... intolerance to tobacco from an indirect involvement point of view." Since receiving the letter back from TOMRA declining to divest, Australia Ethical has been collaborating with other institutional investors via the UNPRI clearinghouse. Australian Ethical ...

US college and university endowments lag on ESG investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
American college and university endowments have a weak understanding of environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing strategies, trends and opportunities, according to a report by the Tellus Institute. US college and university endowments manage ...

Australian Ethical management survive general meeting vote

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... wholesale funds and removed upfront fees across managed funds and superannuation. Its flagship Smaller Companies Trust will divest itself of all offshore equities, and the Property Trust has been closed to all but wholesale investors, Smith said. "A ...

Perpetual creating dashboard ESG reports

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... more analytical way of doing this, rather than just a chat." But material ESG risks won't necessarily prompt analysts to divest from a company, mainly because ESG factors can be difficult to separate out as discrete causes. "Companies are generally more ...