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Corporates to begin adopting final TNFD recommendations

ROSE MARY PETRASS, RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... recommendations from as early as this week. In response to increasing pressure from policymakers and regulators, asset owners, asset managers and leading global companies, are increasing their focus on nature-related risk management and biodiversity ...

BlackRock, SGX, and MSCI launch US$426M Singapore climate action ETF

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... of investors. The ETF is managed by BlackRock, and has received anchor support from Prudential, one of the largest asset owners in Asia and a member of the Net Zero Asset Owners Alliance. The ETF tracks the MSCI AC Asia ex Japan Climate Action Index ...

How to achieve low carbon intensity in your equity portfolio

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... seeing more and more that investors want to dial up their scrutiny on the climate front." bfinance works for global asset owners on the implementation of investment strategies. Brindle said investors have started to set portfolio targets on things like ...

Investors in hot seat over impact of 50-degree day

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... has an increase in mortality and morbidity." The outcomes of the panel will be to demonstrate to fund managers and asset owners how to start assessing how climate change will impact on people and planet - and thus assets in portfolios - based on available ...

Investors consider greenwashing when setting net zero targets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... echoed by Carl Prins, CEO and co-founder of Pathzero, an Australian technology company that provides institutional asset owners access to relevant and reliable carbon information in their private market investment portfolios. "There's a massive lack ...

Engaging for real-world decarbonisation: IGCC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 21 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... their companies, operations and products in line with the Paris Agreement. Nearly 50 Australian fund managers and asset owners belong to the organisation, and Australian focus companies include Adbri, AGL, BHP, Bluescope Steel, Boral, Incitec Pivot ...

Fidelity creates chief sustainability role, plus new chairs for IPCC and PRI

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... Meeting on 13th September 2023. His confirmation will depend on a simple majority vote from PRI signatories, including asset owners. PRI chief executive officer David Atkin thanked Skancke for his leadership and commented: "Conor's proven ability to ...

Climate transition a factor in sovereign debt pricing: Ardea

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 1 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... starting to penalise advanced countries with poor prospects of transitioning away from fossil fuels," Ryan said. "If asset owners use this research to put pressure on fund managers and boost the narrative around this, if we could use this research to ...

Transition Pathway Initiative appoints new chairs as founder steps down

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
... comprehensiveness and depth of its research, the Strategic advisory committee will be an important forum to work with asset owners, managers, and investor coalition partners to ensure that TPI's work continues to enhance investors' analysis of ...

Stewardship part of fiduciary role and investment opportunity: BNP Paribas AM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
... company, the regulators, the stakeholders and different investors to share our views, involving domestic investors and asset owners to work out how as a group we can overcome this and what is needed to overcome issues." She pointed to work being done ...