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Macquarie shareholders call for transparency

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
More than 180 shareholders are calling on Macquarie Group to disclose the full extent of its financing for fossil fuels and outline how it will ensure alignment with its climate commitments. The Macquarie shareholders, along with Market Forces, filed ...

Green moves: Chief Executive Women, Hearts & Minds, Rabobank

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
... superannuation fund members. Most recently this has included elevating the importance of ESG factors in managing material financial risk in super fund investment portfolios. As head of ACSI since 2015, Davidson oversees company engagement, research and ...

Sustainability in 2025

VIRGINIE DERUE  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
... storms as well as increased droughts in some regions and rising precipitation in others. These dangers increase financial risk, causing damage to facilities and infrastructure, threatening supply chains and raising insurance costs. All of these endanger ...

Aware Super, HESTA join forces against Woodside

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
Aware Super and HESTA have voted against the re-election of Woodside director Ann Pickard, who also chairs the Energy Board's Sustainability Committee, with HESTA also voting against the broader remuneration plan. The super funds said the gas giant ...

Green moves: Agscent, HSBC

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
After 30 years in the financial markets glued to bonds and futures contracts, Dugald Lamont has changed tack and joined Agscent, an agri-biotech company at the forefront of sustainable agricultural innovation. The former executive director of JP Morgan ...

Climate transition poses GFC-level risk: Emmi

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... Green bonds make up roughly 4% of the nearly 80,000 total bonds outstanding. How climate scenarios translate to financial risk Assessing the financial impact of climate scenarios and carbon pricing on bonds requires a three-step process: Calculating ...

Investors still drawn to DEI

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and Goldman Sachs are the latest to de-emphasise diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies due to new US government directives. The US political climate is driving pushback against ESG, with corporates ...

Carbon market responds to integrity concerns

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... than double the average value of contracts issued under the previous government's Emission Reduction Fund. The financial risk this carries is typically shared between farmers and developers. While economic benefits outweigh any negative issues, the research ...

Major climate group suspends operations

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
An alliance of financiers with over US$57.5 trillion in assets has bowed to US political pressure and hit pause after the exit of the world's largest asset manager, BlackRock. Net Zero Asset Managers (NZAM), which has over 300 members, announced ...

Biodiversity loss, climate front of mind for investors

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
Institutional investors are increasingly concerned about the "twin crises" of biodiversity loss and climate change resulting from deforestation. That was a key finding of ISS STOXX's Natural Capital Research Institute's first report on how investors ...