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Biodiversity loss a material financial risk: ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 23 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
... biodiversity through operations include fisheries, forestry, agriculture and aquaculture; food, beverages and tobacco; heat utilities; construction, while industries with high impacts on biodiversity in their operations or value chains: Food; infrastructure ...

COP26 commitments on methane to impact infrastructure: ClearBridge

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
... Strong performance on ESG factors will impact on cost of equity for listed companies in the infrastructure sector such as utilities. "We will continue to see those interim targets and benchmarks improve, and as a result there will be new projects that ...

Tightening climate focus on world's biggest emitters: Aviva Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... Programme is our flagship 'climate action' programme. It is focused on 30 companies within the oil and gas, mining and utilities sectors which contribute towards a staggering 30% of annual global emissions when factoring their full lifecycle carbon footprint. ...

MUFG, First Sentier announce head of Sustainable Investment Institute

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... market trends and industry practices. Karadzhova comes to the institute from MSCI, where she was an ESG analyst and utilities sector lead. In her role, she was responsible for utilities sector and company research, ESG ratings, ESG methodology enhancements ...

ASX companies not disclosing labour hire risks: ACCR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... including: airlines and airports, casinos, construction, mining, oil and gas exploration, property management, retail, utilities, supermarkets, and warehousing. "Across the board we're finding that reporting is still very low and investors are being ...

Not all oil stocks are out on ESG grounds: Pendal Group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... that those companies that move from being oil and gas producers to integrated energy companies are likely to resemble utilities in their operations, which means that their price earnings ratio could be rerated favourably. "As long as they're moving ...

Investor consortium completes Tilt Renewables deal

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... platform in the U.S. QIC's global infrastructure portfolio includes 21 assets in six countries across the energy and utilities, transport, and social/PPP sectors.

NTAM launches new quantitative low carbon strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... have high carbon intensity due to their overweight exposure to high carbon sectors that have lower volatility, notably utilities, which contributes to almost 50 percent of the carbon intensity of the MSCI World Index," said Michael Hunstad, head of quantitative ...

Infrastructure manager joins Principles for Responsible Investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... Mike Fitzpatrick, founder and former owner of Hastings Fund Management, and McGregor, ex-head of infrastructure and utilities at Goldman Sachs JBWere and ex-CEO of the Australian Infrastructure Fund. The Fund is currently invested across 'core' and 'super ...

Using climate scenarios to assess company risks, return

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... is great dispersion across stocks within sectors, Tam said. "The largest risks and opportunities are in the energy, utilities, materials, industrials and IT sectors," she said. "We find that renewable energy-based utilities significantly outperform fossil ...