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Australian companies below global peers on reporting, targets: Refinitiv

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... activities are undertaken by almost 16% of companies in Australia, up slightly from 11% in 2014. Real estate, banking and investment services, and chemical companies are the sectors most likely to undertake these activities, the report said. Further ...

AMP Capital regards long term impacts of COVID-19, climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
While business and investment focus in on managing the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change remains a long-term systemic risk that will return to the forefront once the crisis has stabilised, according to AMP Capital. Emily Woodland, head of sustainable ...

Hong Kong regulators establish sustainable finance steering group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... disclose the impact of climate change on their businesses and that asset managers integrate climate factors into their investment processes. This will enable investors to price financial assets accurately and identify those companies which have developed ...

RIAA awards Responsible Investment Certification to Mirova fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2020  |  NEWS
The Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) has awarded Responsible Investment Certification to Mirova 's Global Sustainable Equity Fund. Simon O'Connor, CEO RIAA Mirova is the sustainable investment affiliate manager to Natixis Investment ...

SSGA to vote against ASX100, global ESG laggards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... companies to have best in class ESG performance and oversight," he said, "it also maximises our impact." SSGA has outlined ESG trends that they think will impact in 2020, including predicting that the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) ...

Human rights, ethical sourcing driving ESG considerations in Asia: Ausbil

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... Australian companies to evolving risks and opportunities across environmental and social metrics, according to Ausbil Investment Management. Mans Carlsson-Sweeny, Ausbil Ausbil's ESG research team recently published a paper examining how ethical considerations ...

Eurozone outperforms North America in ESG investing: Amundi

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... Amundi recently analysed data from January 2018 to June 2019 to analyse the performance of 1,700 companies across five investment universes - MSCI North America, MSCI EMU, MSCI Europe-ex EMU, MSCI Japan and MSCI World. The research is based on quantitative ...

Investing in insurance linked securities, integrating climate risk: Amundi

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... intensity, and the impacts of climate change have all been headline news, but Amundi believes there is a long-term investment thesis. "The investment itself is essentially transferring insurable risk into a security vehicle, so the performance of a security ...

Sustainable Digitalisation Project to set goals for real estate and cities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... the level of trust put into a technology, and for investors to assess the level of risk in their property/portfolio/investment managers." The third initiative is the Sustainable Digitalisation Investment Indicators, to establish a useful framework for ...

Climate change, ageing population to cause twin impacts: Actuaries Institute

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
... change will affect Australians in broad ways - impact on economic growth, health and mortality, government spending and investment returns. It says there are consequences for individuals and businesses including health, general and life insurers, pension ...