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Regulation drives ESG advice boom

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
Consulting firms and artificial intelligence (AI) tools are experiencing growing demand from entities struggling to navigate new ESG rules, according to global technology research and advisory firm Information Services Group (ISG). A doubling down of ...

NAB backs green bank for Aussie farmers

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... business practices," NAB group executive for business and private banking Rachel Slade said. NAB is training bankers on climate risk, while CEFC provides resources for potential clients to calculate eligibility and estimate baseline emissions. CEFC co-developed ...

Ethical investment holdings double: CoreData

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... understanding around the risks of investing in companies that are negligent to ESG factors, or haven't considered climate risk in their future plans..." she said. "We've also seen more opportunities to invest in ESG-aligned investment products ...

New tool tackles climate risk

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... Maple-Brown Abbott, and Perennial Partners have commended the data provider for its impact assessment tools. The new Climate Risk Calculator provides forward-looking climate data to help asset managers gauge risk and analyse scenarios to make informed ...

Climate changes how investors get paid

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... dividends are less likely where climate change issues are pressing. "Instead, we found that firms in countries with high climate risk would offer to repurchase the shares from the investors," Mi said. Share buy backs is typical when a company views the ...

Asset managers move climate targets in-house

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... than those that have withdrawn during the same period," said Duncan Paterson, IGCC director of investor practice. "Climate risk is financial risk, and the initiative will continue to support investors globally as they seek to mitigate it." In July 2024 ...

Green moves: Fremantle Seaweed, Impact&ble, Emmi, Petuna Aquaculture

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
A climate risk institute has scooped up Altius Asset Management co-founder, meanwhile a company cutting methane from cow burps nabs Ethical Partners' former head of stewardship. Altius Asset Management co-founder Bill Bovingdon has been named the ...

Funds SA loses ESG executive

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... the investment process, redesigned and managed the socially responsible investment option and developed the first Climate Risk Response Plan and associated reporting against the plan. Funds SA chief executive John Piteo said: "We are thankful for the ...

Green moves: Westpac, Care Super, BlackRock, Quinbrook, Ortec, CAA

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... client servicing, climate and ESG solutions. A decade-long Ortec veteran, de Reus specialises in stochastic modeling, climate risk evaluation, and scenario analysis to guide financial institutions on climate strategy integration. "There is inevitably ...

Global corporate emissions fall for first time

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... 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 for its study, 'Estimating The Corporate Carbon Footprint: A Meta-Model Machine ...