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Mercer to analyse climate change portfolio risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
Mercer is revisiting the topic of a 2011 study examining the strategic asset allocation implications of climate change scenarios, partnering with a group of institutional investors that manage more than US$1.5 trillion in assets under management. Helga ...

Mercer research surveys governance at superannuation funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... boards on decision making. The survey found that on big issues - setting fund strategy, risk management, strategic asset allocation or selecting a new CEO - confidence was high. "Funds feel reasonably confident around things like fund strategy, things ...

Unlisted alt assets as vehicle for accessing sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... building on its own research, including their 2011 report, Climate Change Scenarios - Implications for Strategic Asset Allocation, which predicted that institutional investors could be hit by economic costs of carbon emission policies up to US$8tr by ...

Resource constraints could render pension funds insolvent

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... carbon emission policies up to US$8tr by 2030, according to Climate Change Scenarios - Implications for Strategic Asset Allocation. If the international community's mitigation response to carbon emission is strong, the industries that would be worse ...

PRI work stream to address systemic sustainability barriers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... including benchmarks, performance periods, portfolio turnover and fee structures Portfolio structure and strategic asset allocation - to explore new approaches in the light of the financial crisis, including links to sustainability issues Externalities ...

Investors conducting climate change risk assessments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... integration, Birgden noted. "There are a number of tools and that's where asset consultants can help with strategic asset allocation, modelling on the quant side,... multi-factor analysis and the importance of issues like diversification in relation ...

Investors to call on ERSB to investigate carbon asset risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... This exposure is replicated in other European indices, by companies, in bank loan books and in the strategic asset allocation decisions taken by institutional investors. At present regulators are not monitoring the concentration of high carbon investments ...

Institutional investors put climate change into risk budget

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... change survey have decided to include climate change considerations in future risk management and/or strategic asset allocation processes. Through the Looking Glass: How Investors Are Applying the Results of the Climate Change Scenarios Study surveyed ...

Climate change, human rights, social justice top 2012 agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... clean tech investments." Mercer will update its 2011 report Climate Change Scenarios - Implications for Strategic Asset Allocation, which estimated that institutional investors globally could stand to lose as much as US$8tr by 2030 because of the impacts ...

Mercer: providing education and intervention on ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... portfolio and how to invest in potential sources of ESG alpha in a way that is commensurate with their strategic asset allocation goals. "Because we have a specialist team of 16 globally that works on ESG for our clients, we produce a lot of research ...

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