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The TCFD framework - What is it and how can it be applied to investment analysis?

AGNIESZKA COCHRANE  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... has shifted to an assessment of a company's exposure to extreme weather events as well as exposure to economic and policy changes associated with a transition to a low-carbon economy. The recommendations by the Task Force for Climate Related Fi-nancial ...

Identifying climate change risks in investment analysis

AGNIESZKA COCHRANE  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... portfolio man-agers investing with shorter time horizons. These risks include increasing climate change regulation and policy, technological advances, and changes in consumer preferences relating to a global transition to a low carbon economy. The timing ...

Sustainability, fair trade organisations call for equitable COVID-19 recovery

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... impacts of climate change." The five-point plan calls for Australia to use the globally-agreed SDGs framework to guide key policy decision making, elevate the needs of the most vulnerable and marginalised, create longstanding and inclusive partnerships ...

Investors to increase climate-linked passive investments: DWS Group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... its in-house research and engagement team, Schiele said. "We are a globally integrated asset manager, so at DWS, it's one policy and one team that does the engagement," Schiele said. "In the past, passive funds specifically were considered 'lazy' - you ...

GCNA urges government to focus on sustainability in COVID-19 recovery

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... UN Global Compact. The letter reflected a growing awareness of the significant benefits associated with aligning future policy frameworks with the SDGs, said Kylie Porter, executive director of the GCNA. "The SDGs are already there, they don't require ...

Heritage Bank enacts environmental, social, governance policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... operates in Queensland and New South Wales and has more than $10 billion in assets, began the process of assembling its ESG policy 18 months to two years ago, said Heritage Bank CEO Peter Lock. "If you look at our customer reporting, we started to introduce ...

Data management presents risk, opportunity: Governance Institute

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... comes with demands for data, said Katina Michael, a professor at the Arizona State University and director of the Society Policy Engineering Collective. "Before you have a trust scenario, you have to recognise there's a power imbalance- the end user ...

BNP Paribas issues $140m in equity-linked green bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... developed the five dynamic climate scenarios, outlining pathways where technology, business and investor action and government policy can be deployed to reach global goals of keeping warming below 1.5 or 2 degrees. The index uses a forward-looking approach ...

ESG integration policy brings consistency, innovation: JPMAM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
J.P. Morgan Asset Management (JPMAM) 's new integrated ESG policy has enabled the global fund manager to apply a consistent framework for measuring how investment teams implement and demonstrate ESG processes and enhances the ability to develop more ...

UK pension fund to divest half its portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... thermal coal, oil sands and arctic drilling. NEST, home to more than nine million members, has introduced a new investment policy aimed at achieving net-zero status by 2050 or earlier. It expects carbon emissions in its portfolio will have halved by ...