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Global corporate emissions fall for first time

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
Carbon emissions from listed equities may have reached a turning point, according to new findings made using advanced artificial intelligence to fill disclosure gaps. Financed emissions data and climate risk analyst Emmi looked at 45,000 public companies ...

81 major investors lock in climate targets

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... AUM. This is an increase from 42% in the previous year. They targeted, on average, a 26% reduction by 2025 for bonds, equities, real estate, and infrastructure. Despite the momentum, Wendy Walford, NZAOA policy track co-lead and climate risk head at ...

New alliance brings green data to financial markets

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... step towards incorporating the cost of carbon into every decision." Emmi's datasets cover more than 40,000 public equities, nearly half a million public fixed income holdings, and can produce climate risk and emissions data across unlisted private ...

First Sentier heeds the call of nature

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 10 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... 2025, it will publicly disclose an assessment of nature-related dependencies, impacts, risks and opportunities for listed equities and corporate bonds. It has already set and disclosed impacts and dependencies in listed equities at the sector level. ...

Future Fund restructures investment leadership

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... portfolio design, real assets, investment capability and intelligence, portfolio risk, and responsible investment and listed equities. The new-look unit comprises six leaders, including five new managing director roles reporting to Samild, which will ...

Indices move beyond carbon tunnel vision

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... Robeco has developed the new indices with three levels of progressive action on climate: Low-Carbon Climate Leaders Tilt Equities Index is a low-tracking error alternative to a passive market-cap weighted index, targeting Paris-aligned entities. Paris-Aligned ...

Green job moves: ACSI, Edge, Investa

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) - materiality frameworks and net-zero alignment. Previously he analysed UK equities, after starting as a global responsible investment analyst at Columbia Threadneedle. Meanwhile, Richard Griffiths has ...

S&P Global gains top sustainability expert

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... Alpha Partners - a recently established impact investment research and consulting firm. Founded by former State Super equities lead Andrew Huang 11 months ago, IAP's mission is to effectively partner with investors to drive impact and alpha in their ...

Catastrophe bill blows up to $90bn

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... Disaster Ready Funds. "This repricing activity is one reason why we continue to recommend the general insurance names to our equities clients."

Super fund moves: Aware Super, AustralianSuper, Mine Super and Cbus

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... nation's largest superannuation fund for two years, arriving from Frontier Advisers, where she was a consultant focused on equities. She was with the asset consultant for nearly eight years having first joined in 2012 as a member of the partners ...