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RBA, APRA outline COP26 commitments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
... a group of central banks and supervisors who share practices and contribute to the development of environment and climate risk management in the financial sector. APRA and RBA noted that because climate change affects the economy and the financial system ...

Measuring transition risk key to picking climate leaders: Aviva Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
... both the climate transition and physical risk exposure of different sub-industries and aligns this with corporate climate risk management strategies. This proprietary framework is one of the key differentiating aspects of our Climate Transition suit ...

COP26 preview: reporting, carbon markets and role of finance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2021  |  NEWS
As world leaders across government, business and finance gather in Glasgow for COP26, observers are awaiting not only net zero commitments, but interim commitments and developments related to international carbon markets and how countries report on ...

"War for talent": ESG professionals in high demand

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2021  |  NEWS
... in the last three months. Companies across industrial sectors are hiring into ESG roles with particular focus on climate risk and net zero targets, Evans said. "Climate risk is front and centre," he said. "Organisations are looking at net zero pathways. ...

Kilter Rural in $70m mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2021  |  NEWS
... provide. Those are big policy shifts, and even here locally, you have APRA issuing technical risk disclosures for climate risk, and investors have to think about how they are managing those risks." Kilter Rural was established in 2004 and manages agricultural ...

Rest outlines net zero scenario, impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2021  |  NEWS
Industry fund Rest estimates that its average fund member could be approximately $50,000 better off at retirement if the world acts on climate change. Rest has released the scenario analysis and stress testing of its investment portfolio and outlined ...

Australia among "least attractive" countries for green investment: report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2021  |  NEWS
... was on 'green' initiatives, compared for example to Canada, which spent 74.5%. "Investors understand that climate risk is investment risk," said AIGCC and IGCC CEO Rebecca Mikula-Wright. "Investors want to seize the enormous investment opportunities ...

Climate change "a first-order risk": RBA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2021  |  NEWS
... Australia. Debelle also warned while there has only been "isolated examples" of divestment from Australia because of climate risk, the likelihood of more significant divestment is increasing. "Over recent years, climate risks have increasingly entered ...

Corporate finance execs seeking greater ESG knowledge

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2021  |  NEWS
... management, strategic planning and capital planning and ESG is part of those considerations. McWilliams reinforced that. "Climate risk isn't just associated with information outside the financial statements but also we've seen bulletins and guidance ...

ASIC trains sights on IPO net zero statements

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... targets must have reasonable grounds on which to base their future action, said Sarah Barker, partner and head of climate risk governance at MinterEllison. "When you're looking at a net zero target, it's inherently not only a statement of present intention ...