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Carbon securities the next game-changer

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
... it's not about ethics and it's not about social responsibility. It's about financial materiality and the fiduciary duty of asset owners. The risks on their pools of capital are real," he said. He is confident of the sector's growth, despite ...

Investors progress on climate, but barriers emerge

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2025  |  NEWS
... progress on climate is absolutely critical to their beneficiaries' financial interests, which is an investor's fiduciary duty. Investors continue to set emissions targets and are spending a lot more time figuring out how to protect against increasing ...

BlackRock settles lawsuit for 'misleading consumers'

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... agreement's terms. BlackRock also committed to ensuring that its communications with investors comply with disclosure and fiduciary duty laws, and for its funds that don't have investment objectives beyond financial performance, it will cast ...

Most-read articles of 2024

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... Recruitment, which in May released its much-awaited salary guide for ESG roles in 2024. Read here. Nature now a fiduciary duty and financial risk The Senate Inquiry into the Government's Nature Positive Bills in September recommended amending legislation ...

Mega recovery on cards for sustainable funds

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... we got until people pick themselves up from the trough of disillusionment?" He argues that money managers have a fiduciary duty to address ESG risk. "This is not just something that green funds need to be thinking about, and it doesn't much matter whether ...

Nature now a fiduciary duty and financial risk

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... with international expectations. The A$35 trillion Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) says investors have a fiduciary duty to manage the physical, transition and systemic risks of nature. The Responsible Investment Association of Australia (RIAA) ...

Investors exit climate group amid politicisation

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... sends a signal that "factoring all material risks and opportunities into decision-making aligns with investors' fiduciary duty," the IGCC spokesperson said. However, progress remains slow, with companies on average only 40% aligned to the CA100+ Net ...

Global investors unite for Climate Action 100+

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Sweden. The signatories said addressing climate-related investment risks was a "fiduciary duty" and that all investors "have an obligation to protect the value of their assets for the beneficiaries of their investments". ...

Holdings fly in face of super duty

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
Aussie super funds' recent ramp up of fossil fuel holdings breaches their fiduciary duty and puts Australian retirements at risk, researchers say. Despite net zero by 2050 commitments, Australia's largest 30 super funds nearly doubled fossil fuel exposure ...

Podcast: Divestment, impact, and all that good stuff with Sharon Davis of Future Super

THE GREENER WAY  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2024  |  NEWS
... (proxy voting and engagements), and how to approach divesting from fossil fuels while at the same time ensuring the fiduciary duty of long-term returns for members.
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