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Future Super launches as first fossil-fuel free fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... there's a financial driver as well. When the world takes meaningful action on climate change, people have a risk on stranded assets. It's both a financial and values-based decision." Future Super will employ a strategy of enrolling and retaining members ...

Mercer to analyse climate change portfolio risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... immediate pressure to a fund's reputation through member letters and activist lobbying on topics like fossil fuels and stranded assets or in relation to real assets and severe weather events. This requires institutional investors to be more informed ...

MSCI launches ESG CarbonMetrics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... screening tools to measure and manage portfolio exposure to carbon-related risks. "With concerns about carbon stranded assets risk increasing in the investment community, asset owners and managers will need tools designed to measure exposure to carbon ...

CDSB tackles reporting of carbon asset stranding risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... director of CDSB in a statement. "This is matched by concern among investors that their portfolios may include stranded assets which are not being recognised under the current reporting regime. Our work is aimed at greater transparency and clarity in ...

Mercer: ESG as source of innovation in shifting economy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... different way," she said. "The portfolio is the next frontier." One area of discussion with clients is the concept of stranded assets - the financial risk that comes with the risk of unburnable carbon, a concept that stipulates that only around one third ...

UCA Funds Management sets exclusions in fossil fuel policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... Justice and International Mission Unit. UCA Funds Management also considered the issue of unburnable carbon and stranded assets in developing the policy. Unburnable carbon is a concept that only around one third of current proven reserves of fossil fuels ...

Impax Asset Management makes case for fossil fuel divestment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... means that there is pressure on investors to divest and the potential risk that low carbon assets could become stranded assets. Impax said that full divestment may not be an immediate option for the majority of investors, they could pursue as an intermediate ...

Australian exposed to carbon bubble through coal resources

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... precautionary global carbon budget for coal, exposing investors in coal resourcesto potentially rapid devaluation and stranded assets, according to a report by The Climate Institute and the Carbon Tracker Initiative. According to the report, there is ...

Investors to call on ERSB to investigate carbon asset risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... unsustainable investments" could leave certain investors such as pension funds "could find themselves holding "stranded assets with poor returns" as technology and government policy reduce returns in "coal, oil, gas mining and other high carbon asset ...
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