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Woodside investors urged to sack the board over dud returns

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... Corporate Responsibility (ACCR) urges investors to clean house, blaming directors for chronically weak returns and climate risk failures. The ACCR filed members' statements opposing the re-election of all directors at the upcoming annual general meeting ...

Green moves: Re-Vi, Aware Super, Insignia Financial

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... manager of asset management climate data and reporting. In her new role, Gaskin will lead the the newly legislated climate risk assessment and reporting per the Australian Sustainability Reporting Standards. The new standards came into effect in January ...

Super moves: Qantas Super, VFMC, AusSuper

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... reporting. In her new role, Gaskin will lead the asset management division's contribution to the newly legislated climate risk assessment and reporting per the Australian Sustainability Reporting Standards. The new standards came into effect in January ...

Climate transition poses GFC-level risk: Emmi

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... significant transition risk. Therefore, investors need to invest in companies that are making efforts to address climate risk to reduce their transition risk. Green bonds make up roughly 4% of the nearly 80,000 total bonds outstanding. How climate scenarios ...

Regulation drives ESG advice boom

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
Consulting firms and artificial intelligence (AI) tools are experiencing growing demand from entities struggling to navigate new ESG rules, according to global technology research and advisory firm Information Services Group (ISG). A doubling down of ...

NAB backs green bank for Aussie farmers

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... business practices," NAB group executive for business and private banking Rachel Slade said. NAB is training bankers on climate risk, while CEFC provides resources for potential clients to calculate eligibility and estimate baseline emissions. CEFC co-developed ...

Ethical investment holdings double: CoreData

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... understanding around the risks of investing in companies that are negligent to ESG factors, or haven't considered climate risk in their future plans..." she said. "We've also seen more opportunities to invest in ESG-aligned investment products ...

New tool tackles climate risk

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... Maple-Brown Abbott, and Perennial Partners have commended the data provider for its impact assessment tools. The new Climate Risk Calculator provides forward-looking climate data to help asset managers gauge risk and analyse scenarios to make informed ...

Climate changes how investors get paid

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... dividends are less likely where climate change issues are pressing. "Instead, we found that firms in countries with high climate risk would offer to repurchase the shares from the investors," Mi said. Share buy backs is typical when a company views the ...

Asset managers move climate targets in-house

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... than those that have withdrawn during the same period," said Duncan Paterson, IGCC director of investor practice. "Climate risk is financial risk, and the initiative will continue to support investors globally as they seek to mitigate it." In July 2024 ...