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RIAA to engage NZ investors on climate change, investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
New Zealand investment management professionals will debate climate change and unburnable carbon among other topics at the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) briefing in Auckland today. Simon O'Connor, RIAA CEO The 4 th annual Responsible ...

Investors ask companies for information on fossil fuel exposures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... Tracker Initiative, with support from the Global Investor Coalition on Climate Change, has written to 45 companies with fossil fuel assets, requesting detailed responses before their annual shareholder meetings in early 2014. Local Government Super ...

Northern Trust develops emerging markets low CO2 fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... Northern Trust has developed an emerging markets fund made up of companies that have both lower carbon emissions and less fossil fuel reserves. The Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund (AP4) will invest in the Northern Trust Emerging Markets Custom Low ...

HSBC calls for policies to support low-carbon financing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... high-carbon options that dampens financial appetite for climate solutions. HSBC Global Research cited steps to reduce fossil fuel subsidies and to price carbon, and recommends replacing consumption subsidies for diesel and kerosene with capital support ...

Climate Bonds Initiative releases criteria for solar assets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... Climate Bonds CEO. "But we needed an expert working group to address questions around potential environmental impacts, fossil fuel back up and supply chain manufacturing to make sure we have all bases covered." The Climate Bonds Initiative convened the ...

RIAA: Responsible Investment portfolios continue to grow

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... to highlight those that are doing this with a bit of integrity. I think we'll continue to see a big strong focus on fossil fuel [assets] with the work done by 350.org and other NGOs driving towards divestment, and we'll see the response from a risk management ...

Impax Asset Management makes case for fossil fuel divestment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
Eliminating the fossil fuel sector from a global benchmark index can yield a small positive return effect with low tracking error, according to analysis by Impax Asset Management. Impax created model equity portfolios structured around fossil fuel divestment ...

Citi analyses impact of carbon price repeal on ASX companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... positive for the sector, with the biggest beneficiaries likely to be Adelaide Brighton and Boral. See Also: Assessing fossil fuel value in an "unburnable carbon" world

Bill McKibben urges super funds to divest from fossil fuel

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... superannuation funds during his recent Australian tour, pressing the economic and moral case for investors to divest from fossil fuel companies. Bill McKibben, co-founder and chairman of the board of 350.org McKibben, the author of The End of Nature ...

Greens call on Future Fund to divest from coal companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... so why would we allow the fund to prop up the companies which make our future even more uncertain?" Milne said that fossil fuel investments account for about 3% of the AU$85bn Future Fund. She cited recent votes by the Uniting Church of NSW & ACT to ...