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When ESG improvement comes at a cost: MFS Investment Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... company strategy. "You need to be talking to companies to understand how are they changing their future-looking view on capex, are they doing what many of the oil and gas majors are doing, pivoting their business and looking at longer term demand for ...

Assessing climate risk in corporate bond portfolios

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... utility that is currently one of the top five emitters in Europe, but have set a pathway to net zero with non-essential capex being spent on renewable assets. "That's why we're focused on forward looking metrics and qualitative analysis as part ...

Aviva Investors puts companies on notice over climate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... pointed to the example of engaging with oil and gas companies and finding out how net zero commitments are being applied to capex plans. "Particularly within oil and gas and mining, the capex time horizon and lag before a project becomes fully operational ...

Climate Bond Standard launches shipping criteria for bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... introduction of the shipping criteria to the Climate Bonds Standard opens up another science-based investment pathway for capex to be applied in this sector and delivers a range of positive environmental impacts." The shipping criteria were developed ...

Green loans in "nascent" stage: Climate Bonds Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... transition strategies come to the fore from institutional investors and are increasingly embedded in company business models and capex plans." The first green loan in the region came from New Zealand's power utility Contact Energy, in August 2017 ...

Carbon emissions need to peak "as soon as possible": AXA IM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... companies, rather than fossil companies, for instance, and to insist and to insist and strengthen expectations in terms of capex and investment that can be done in the renewable energy domain." On the demand side, Moret noted that since 1990 three sectors ...

Questions raised over governance implications of share buyback schemes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... crisis, particularly of this magnitude," he said. Share buyback schemes in the US were not funded primarily by reductions to capex or R&D spend, but rather funded by debt, Marshall noted. "If a company is borrowing to buy-back its own shares, that equation ...

Analysis: climate change, Australia and the fierce urgency of now

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... said. "If all reserves on the books get burnt, we blow our carbon budget many times over. We need a presumption against capex going into new reserves. The third policy position is to assertively discourage any fossil fuel expansion by services companies ...

Global issuance of green bonds tops $100 billion to date in 2019

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
... Taxonomy provide across broad sectors of the real economy, opens the door to brown-to-green transition of corporate assets and capex programs, and for banks and insurance companies to sizeably increase the availability of green capital," Kidney said. ...

Examining the corporate governance implications of share buybacks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... fewer the next year - buybacks are a more flexible form of capital return." Marshall noted that there has been a decline in capex spending and an increase in share buybacks during the period of analysis, pointing out that in 2015, a higher percentage ...