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Growing disaster costs elevate need for climate adaptation investments: Actuaries Institute

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2026  |  NEWS
... improved cost-benefit analysis frameworks that reflect social impacts, uncertainty, and tail risk (risk of rare, high-impact events set to increase). Other suggestions include integrating natural disaster costs and adaptation investment requirements ...

More funding needed to modernise renewable energy infrastructure

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2026  |  NEWS
... the Net Zero Emissions (NZE) target. Ageing infrastructure will be unable to handle mounting demand and extreme climate events, QIC urged, saying more funding into modernisation is needed to prevent further breakdowns.

Virescent Ventures backs fire prevention technology

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 18 DEC 2025  |  NEWS
... locate anomalies so that maintenance crews can intervene proactively. The systems have already prevented more than 500 fire events globally. Virescent Ventures will provide funding to the globally scaled 24/7 Early Fault Detection (EFD) systems to utilities ...

Big banks neglect carbon emitted by financed deforestation: ACF

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2025  |  NEWS
... manage or disclose the extent of deforestation occurring in their loan portfolios. The study collected data on land-clearing events across 77 agricultural properties financed by ANZ (including Suncorp), NAB, Commonwealth Bank and Westpac over the four ...

Women in Super announces new board line-up

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2025  |  NEWS
... as Women in Super's Queensland chair, building networks, driving gender-equity initiatives and supporting industry events across the state. Returning to the board is Emma Haycraft, now a communications specialist with Super SA, the South Australian ...

Padua ends joint CEO structure

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2025  |  NEWS
... broadening its reach in the advice ecosystem. "I look forward to continuing to represent Padua at conferences, industry events, university collaborations... as well as championing the role of women in financial services more broadly," she stated. The ...

Stewardship initiatives rise in popularity among DC pension funds

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2025  |  NEWS
... Urwin explained "resilience is organisational preparedness for, in this case, systemic risks to manifest for there to be events that damage the system." Funds are increasingly thinking of what they can do to mitigate their exposure to emerging geopolitical ...

Companies up risk management to tackle physical risks: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2025  |  NEWS
... to hazards such as earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic ashfall. MSCI estimated that over the last decade extreme weather events have cost the global economy more than US$2 trillion. Meanwhile, Australia has some of the highest cumulative losses in the ...

The hidden climate risks in asset owners' portfolios

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2025  |  NEWS
... that adoption of these frameworks is the highest among companies recently impact by climate-exacerbated extreme weather events. The report urges investors to factor location and physical-risk data into their portfolio assessments, to avoid mispricing ...

Heat-related illness to 'overwhelm' Australian healthcare

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2025  |  NEWS
... Health and Wellbeing, up from 26% in the 2007 study. BMI believes the heightened temperature and frequent extreme weather events will further exacerbate those currently dealing with mental health conditions, as Australia's mental health resources are ...