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Investors demand more clarity on carbon exposures

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2013
... holdings so investors can assess their position in relation to environmental issues, according to the Asset Owners Disclosure Project (AODP). The independent, not-for-profit organisation's stated aim is to protect members' retirement savings from the ...

Media super ups disclosure, lodges MySuper application

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2013
... members of this through its half-yearly statement cycle. The fund also said it would be kicking off a new asset disclosure project that will see it regularly disclose its holdings across domestic and international shares, property, infrastructure and ...

Pension funds reckless on climate risk: Hewson

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012
... mismanagement of climate change risk, said a prominent economist. Yesterday the not-for-profit group the Asset Owners Disclosure Project (AOPD) released what it said was the first ever global index that shows how the world's biggest investors are managing ...

Insto's ignoring climate change

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2012
... investment dangers of Climate Change are now being ignored, said Dr John Hewson, chairman of the Asset Owners Disclosure Project (AODP) and Shartru Capital. Through AOPD Hewson, a former leader of the Australian Liberal Party and Reserve Bank economist ...

Future Fund 'under-resourced' on climate risks

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012
... providing stakeholders with clarity about its strategies to protect its portfolio. In a letter to the Asset Owners Disclosure Project, the $75 billion fund claimed it suffered "resource constraints." Asset Owners Disclosure Project (AODP) Chair Dr John ...

AustralianSuper creates governance role

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... climate change initiatives including Investor Group on Climate Change, ESG Research Australia and the Carbon Disclosure Project along with being a signatory to the United Nations Principles of Responsible Investing (UNPRI) since 2007.

Super funds fail green assessment

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2011
... $63 billion of almost $12 trillion managed by respondents to this survey)," the report said. The Asset Owners Disclosure Project (AODP) and its Australian partner, The Climate Institute, have labelled the report as misrepresenting the actual state of ...

Super funds fail on carbon disclosure

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2011
... director, The Climate Institute. "Even more disappointingly, some super funds, who are signatories to the Carbon Disclosure Project which advocates this kind of disclosure, did not 'walk the talk' and voted against the resolution." Poulter said that ...

Instos still lukewarm on climate change risk

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2010
... a survey shows. The joint survey by industry group AIST and the Climate Institute, called the Asset Owners Disclosure Project, released today, has given an unprecedented insight into how super funds view climate change risks but, more importantly, what ...

South Africa and Brazil take ESG lead

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2009
... environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) disclosure by global institutional investors. The Emerging Markets Disclosure Project (EMDP) survey found Brazilian and South African firms had made the greatest progress because both countries had ...