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Investors lag in integrating climate risk: PGIM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... an Altered Investment Landscape. The research involved insights from PGIM fund managers, external academics, economists, policy-makers, scientists and climate change investors; and a survey of 100 global institutional investors to better understand their ...

Australian business face European carbon levy for exports

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... Climate Change Institute at the Australian National University. "Either it happens externally or it happens via internal policy, but they will establish a level playing field for things that are for sale within their jurisdiction." CBAM will potentially ...

Using ESG, ethical screens in multi-asset strategy investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... have proxy voting," Somaia said. "We use the services of Glass Lewis as advisers for proxy voting, and we moved to the ESG policy in late 2019 and early 2020. We benefitted from conversations we had with other investment teams and this is where we got ...

ESG part of financial sustainability of infrastructure: ClearBridge

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations are part of calculating long term financial sustainability of infrastructure investments, according to ClearBridge Investments. ClearBridge, which was known as RARE Infrastructure until earlier ...

Ausbil drops fossil fuel companies from sustainable fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... transition risk." Ausbil notes the energy transition is "well underway" and that governments around the world are accelerating policy initiatives that support the substitution of fossil fuels with renewable fuel sources. "That trend is accelerating ...

Investors back climate bill

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... This is being hampered in Australia by the lack of "clear long term direction" and a "coordinated national climate change policy suite," O'Connor said. O'Connor noted that while investment in low carbon opportunities is happening in Australia ...

Social premium on the rise: Federated Hermes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... corporate culture, he noted. "Does a company have an appropriate health and safety process, do they have a human rights policy," Grant said. "Third party providers will track that, but does it look like it's just ticking the boxes? To assess that, you ...

Biden inauguration brings climate challenge for Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... greenhouse gas emissions by 26 to 28% below 2005 levels by 2030, according to the latest NDC. By not having a strong national policy towards decarbonisation, Australia runs the risk of having a less optimally managed transition, Herd said. "It becomes ...

Australia's Paris Agreement carbon commitments criticised

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... alone with the Paris Agreement's stronger 1.5 degree C limit." Jane Rennie, CPA Australia general manager external affairs, policy and advocacy, said Australia had "stuck a spoke in the wheel" of an increasingly ambitious cycle of climate action under ...

Science-based targets key to addressing the world's biggest challenges

LOUISE WATSON  |  TUESDAY, 29 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... governments committing to the transition away from fossil fuels. In Australia, the 2018 Banking Royal Commission and ensuing policy debate surrounding the concept of "members' best interest" also created discussion about the role ESG plays in creating ...