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Comment: hindsight is 2020

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... -Risk Management. Furthermore, in a paper titled "Climate change: Awareness to action", APRA wrote about "the financial nature of climate change risks to its regulated entities. APRA has advised that these risks are material, foreseeable and actionable ...

Global green bond market continues to grow, expand: J.P. Morgan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... taxonomy of the Chinese market but they were the first," she said. "The coordinated effort of the EU and the cooperative nature of so many participants is a massive undertaking. Whether or not other jurisdictions will follow, time will tell. It depends ...

Integrating ESG essential to infrastructure portfolio: First Sentier Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... corporate governance (ESG) considerations is essential to building an infrastructure portfolio because of the long term nature of the assets, according to First Sentier Investors. Niall Mills, First Sentier Investors "If you take a big infrastructure ...

Wilderness Society links deforestation to beef production, supply chain risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... what are Australian companies doing to address deforestation risk," said Jessica Panegyres, Wilderness Society national nature campaigner and report co-author. "We researched the different companies, to underhand who are the leaders and who are the laggards ...

Millennials prioritise long term returns, fees in investment funds: Calastone

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2019  |  NEWS
... insights - not just about cost, although it's not just that, it's about an experience as well." Tomlinson noted the unexpected nature of the ranking of ethical funds. "When we did it, we didn't expect to see that either," he said. "London ground to a ...

ASIC critiques management of non-financial risk in governance review

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2019  |  NEWS
... governance practices and accountability structures with reference to our findings." ASIC had four broad conclusions about the nature of non-financial risk management: All too often, management was operating outside of board-approved risk appetites for ...

Put climate resilience at the core of business strategy: WBCSD

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2019  |  NEWS
... chains and across the communities where they operate. 3. Assess the connections, dependencies and value to society and nature (source: WBCSD) Within those steps, there are calls to action for business: understand and assess business risks, put resilience ...

Rise of automation to drive emergence of "super jobs": Deloitte

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2019  |  NEWS
... knowledge is shrinking, Brown said. "The half-life of what people know now has reduced down to, depending on people and the nature of the job - two to five years, tops," Brown said. "So, the whole way in which we go about thinking about learning is changing. ...

Climate risk necessitates short and long term stress testing: Mercer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019  |  NEWS
... infrastructure, it should generate lower operating costs over the life, compared to non-sustainable infrastructure." "The long term nature of this problem can't be confused with a lack of urgency," Birgden said. "One of the ways that we're trying to ...

IOSCO releases statement on ESG-related disclosures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2019  |  NEWS
... decisions." I OSCO recently released a statement that provided a summary and a reminder, rather than suggested changes in the nature and structures of ESG disclosures. ISOCO noted that disclosures of ESG information in markets has increased in recent ...