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Company, investor climate change partnership "essential": Robeco

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... company does not improve on the ESG objectives that Robeco decides are material to shareholder return, this could lead to divestment and/or exclusion. "If such companies don't improve enough, we will exclude them from the investment universe," she said. ...

Analysis: climate change, Australia and the fierce urgency of now

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... assertively discourage any fossil fuel expansion by services companies in investment portfolios." Public calls for divestment from coal, and other fossil fuel extraction activities is mounting. However, superannuation funds are governed by legal and ...

Superannuation funds that invest responsibly outperform: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... disclosure on activities remains low. "I think it's an acknowledgement that there are as lot more tools available than just divestment," O'Connor said. "What we often see is that there is an expectation by beneficiaries that the most harmful industries ...

QBE, Suncorp among global insurers exiting coal: Unfriend Coal

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... companies operating in these sectors, and have applied similar policies to tar sands. Swiss Re, SCOR and Zurich lead on divestment. Their policies exclude both coal and tar sands projects and, in the case of SCOR and Zurich, any company that plans new ...

Low Carbon Readiness Index measures motivation to reduce carbon

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
... looking to take action and take steps in their own lives to counteract climate change, so we formed within the global divestment movement - and our role is to provide an outlet for people who are already climate active, politically aware and want to ...

CFSGAM to divest from tobacco products across portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2019  |  NEWS
... to the tobacco sector is less than 1% of assets under management, and has introduced the policy with "a view to full divestment of current holdings by (or before) the end of 2019." The new policy is overseen by the FSI Global Responsible Investment Steering ...

US activists target banks over finance to for-profit prisons, detention centres

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
... working with unions that have identified pension funds that are invested in detention centres to run campaigns to do divestment work. "We have started conversations with the American Federation of Teachers," he said. "They in turn have identified some ...

Man Group analyses tobacco considerations in investment strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018  |  NEWS
Global fund manager Man Group is considering the impacts of divestment from tobacco as part of its broader approach to responsible investing. Jason Mitchell, sustainability strategist, Man Group, The fund manager does not have a blanket policy of divestment ...

Vision Super publishes Corporate Responsibility report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2018  |  NEWS
... plans to transition to a low carbon economy in future. "We haven't divested," Wyrsch said. "The issue we have with divestment generally is that it is partisanship. When we look around the world at what's happening, companies have a great deal of partisanship ...

RIAA annual conference to discuss how responsible investment will shape future economy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2017  |  NEWS
... is that for a long time the industry has been focused on how we avoid ESG risk, how we avoid harmful industries from divestment, and where the industry is shifting is to focus on where we're allocating money as opposed to where we withdraw money from," ...