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Investing in net zero "makes business sense": Energetics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... companies to preference suppliers with lower emissions. Q: How do both companies and investors go about measuring physical risk of climate change? A: Physical risk is really challenging because it happens on a very localised basis. For example, Flooding ...

Act now on carbon emissions to avoid higher costs later: EY

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... propositions for your company in 2030-2035"; and act now to create options and manage risks. "What's key is understanding the risk profile now and how that risk profile is changing because of these different levers - how is your risk profile changing ...

Mandatory climate reporting challenges directors: AICD

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... focus on the task ahead. The AICD guide is designed to support directors as companies shift to mandatory reporting of climate risk and opportunity, which brings an evolution as directors get comfortable with signing off on complex disclosures. "This ...

Does sustainable investing underperform?

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... portfolios performed at 0.2% lower than the proxy for the US market, and 0.1% lower when accounting for portfolio market risk exposure. In addition, more than 50% of the positive alpha in 2020 is explained by industry exposure factors, leaving investors ...

Climate risk or opportunity for insurance sector

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
Insurance leaders have reframed the challenge of climate risk as an opportunity, stating that physical risk from climate change is not the biggest challenge to insurance. Finity Consulting principal Rade Musulin and Swiss Reinsurance head of property ...

Australian companies lagging on climate action

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... emissions - and for most if not all the companies targeting by Climate Action 100+ that's where the biggest transitional risk lies, particularly with the [Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism] coming in." Climate Action 100+ is engaging with 159 listed ...

Danish pension fund completes US$520m divestment

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
Danish pension fund AkademikerPension has completed a fossil fuel divestment program to exit its portfolio of oil and gas stocks worth US$520 million with the sale of Italy's ENI. The fund, which oversees $20 billion in client assets, has undergone ...

Climate fund assets reach half a trillion dollars

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
The world is failing to limit warming to 1.5°C - yet climate transition funds are gaining traction, with assets in open-end and exchange-traded funds with a climate focus now reaching US$534 billion. Boosted by inflows and product development, assets ...

ZEN Energy recruits new senior exec

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... Phillipa establishing, investing, and managing infrastructure and energy-focused funds, overseeing credit exposure and market risk, and building new funds and businesses including renewable energy development platforms with a global remit, ZEN Noted. ...

Grim stats for company, investor net zero targets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... commit to a 7% annual decarbonisation targets that requires forced divestment of carbon laggards. Only if Australian companies risk losing capital from our super funds will they see the importance of acting annually and with the required magnitude to ...