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Canberra targets natural disaster insurance gap

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... globally due to increased natural hazard events, increases in the cost of rebuilding post-disaster, and asset price inflation. Home insurance costs rose 28% in the year to March 2023, with higher-risk properties copping a 50% increase in premiums, according ...

Aware and Macquarie partner on green finance

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... 2030: the estimated cost sits at $US3.5 trillion annual capital investment to 2050. The deal comes at a time that the US Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 has pushed $500 b of new spending and tax breaks to accelerate the transition to net zero in the ...

AI trumps climate as chief risk factor: economists

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
Work on climate continues quietly in the background, while AI, geopolitical risk and the stickiness of inflation take centre stage. That's the takeaway from the Financial Standard annual Chief Economists Forum this week where Nicki Hutley, independent ...

Dramatic spike in votes against ASX remuneration: Georgeson

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... but with reservations or qualifications. "All it then takes are changes such as the recent cost of living crisis and inflation to tip a lot of those marginal support votes into marginal against votes." Georgeson noted that the number of ASX300 companies ...

BlackRock's Evergreen Infrastructure fund scores US$1bn

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 21 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... Evergreen Infrastructure was announced in June 2022 and seeks to deliver consistent long-term cash yield, and resilient inflation-linked, fully contracted returns for investors. It invests in a portfolio of diversified core infrastructure businesses ...

Investment in climate tech plummets 40%: PwC

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... while North America and China shifted away from mobility-related start-ups and towards industry, likely a result of the Inflation Reduction Act, the Asia-Pacific region and Europe doubled down on mobility over the past two years. The rest of world saw ...

Climate fund assets reach half a trillion dollars

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... assets of US$818 million. Assets in US climate funds grew by 4% in the past 18 months to US$31.7 billion despite the Inflation Reduction Act. This is attributed to high oil and gas prices, as well as falling valuations in renewable energy stocks. European ...

RBA sets 2030 net zero target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... speech assessing how the economic effects of climate change may affect monetary policy, including the merits of flexible inflation targeting. Bullock noted that the bank's flexible inflation target is between 2 and 3%, and in order to integrate the implications ...

Australian self-directed investors lead world on ESG

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 29 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... goals, ambitions, financial markets, portfolio performance and future trading intentions. The survey gathered views on inflation, geopolitics, the cost-of-living crisis, asset class allocation and ESG. APAC and Africa CEO Kevin Algeo said that the percentage ...

Revenue recycling carbon tax would increase Australia's GDP

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... introduced starting at $23/tCO2, increasing over time and imposing uniformly on all industries to $70 in 2030 until 2035. The inflation impact of this policy is estimated to be 0.5% in 2023, increasing to 1.52% in 2035. This would be offset through redistribution ...