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Measuring transition risk key to picking climate leaders: Aviva Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
... fossil-fuel powered global economy to the low carbon economy that is intended by 2050. This transition brings opportunity, but also risk. Transition risk is defined as the risks that stem from changes in governments' climate policy, technology and ...

Board of the future to face more ESG issues: Governance Institute

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
... based on a survey of 550 non-executive directors, CEOs and C-suite executives, company secretaries and senior governance or risk management professionals, as well as two working groups comprised of senior directors and industry leaders. More than two ...

Credible COP26 outcome needed to catalyse private investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
... realise those commitments. We now need to sit down and discuss what are the policy instruments, how are we going to share the risk. The capital is there, it just needs to have good projects in which to invest." Financial strategies and pathways should ...

Biodiversity goals a part of COP26 considerations

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 2 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
... Taskforce on Climate Change Financial Disclosures (TCFD). Financial disclosures need to assess governance, strategy, and risk management. Unlike climate change, for which there are such cross-sectoral metrics as "CO2 equivalent," there's no standard ...

ASX200 ESG reporting increases, but gaps remain: PwC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2021  |  NEWS
... and lines of reporting from skilled management to the Board in areas as broad an environmental impact and climate change, risk management, human resources and diversity and inclusion." In other areas needing attention, less than half - 47% - of the ASX200 ...

COP26 preview: reporting, carbon markets and role of finance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2021  |  NEWS
As world leaders across government, business and finance gather in Glasgow for COP26, observers are awaiting not only net zero commitments, but interim commitments and developments related to international carbon markets and how countries report on ...

"War for talent": ESG professionals in high demand

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2021  |  NEWS
... insurance and trustee services. There was strong demand for professionals across investments, ESG/responsible investment, risk and compliance, client services, data and performance analytics, investment accounting and operations, and marketing. Kaizen ...

Wayfinding for deeper engagement in ethical investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2021  |  NEWS
... Bringing wayfinding philosophy and practices to ethical investment can help advisers with navigating issues including reducing risk, increasing returns by adding impact and having a more fulfilling journey, Rodger Spiller noted in the webinar. Rodger ...

Kilter Rural in $70m mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2021  |  NEWS
... Investors are seeking natural capital investments in response to changing regulatory frameworks and a revised approach to risk management that is changing the nature of investing, said Kilter Rural CEO Cullen Gunn. "There's an appetite for investing ...

Investor toolkit to assist in engaging on Indigenous cultural heritage protection

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2021  |  NEWS
... to working to develop this toolkit, abrdn has also developed and evolved its internal guidelines and research on corporate risk, human rights and cultural heritage of First Nations peoples, Welsh-Rose said. "In terms of what we've been doing at abrdn ...