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Chief economist update: Japan's five minutes of sunshine

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2020
... includes about Â¥40 trillion (US$384.47 billion) in direct fiscal spending and initiatives targeted at reducing carbon emissions and boosting adoption of digital technology. This new spending brings Japan's total pandemic-related stimulus to around ...

Funds' net-zero ambitions collide with Santos

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2020
... Australian shares exposure. In light of Aware's recent announcement that by introducing new benchmarks that take carbon emissions into account it had cut the carbon footprint of its equities portfolio by 40%, Financial Standard asked the fund whether ...

Aware Super cuts carbon emissions by 40%

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020
... benchmarks, Aware's passive and systematic investment managers can implement their strategies in line with lower carbon emissions. The benchmarks were rolled out to Aware Super's investment managers in October 2020. Since then, the fund's Australian ...

AustralianSuper hires for investment team

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2020
... Morgan Stanley, Barclays Capital and Societe Generale. Last week, AustralianSuper promised to go net-zero in carbon emissions by 2050 to mitigate against the risk of climate change on its portfolio's long-term performance. Activist group MarketForces ...

AustralianSuper net-zero promise flawed: MarketForces

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2020
AustralianSuper's promise to go net-zero in carbon emissions by 2050 fails to "match, let alone improve on" what its peer funds are doing, says MarketForces. Last Thursday, AustralianSuper said it would target net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 to ...

World largest asset owners increase ESG, AUM

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2020
... steadily, aiming to have actual impacts by reporting on the impacts of their investment strategies and reducing carbon emissions from portfolios. Thinking Ahead Institute co-founder Roger Urwin said the larger funds within the AO100 are also using universal ...

Climate change reporting is cheap talk: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2020
... information to identify green companies in brown sectors," the paper, Green Data or Greenwashing? Do Corporate Carbon Emissions Data Enable Investors to Mitigate Climate Change? reads. To help mitigate climate change, investors tend to switch investments ...

AustralianSuper backs net-zero emissions

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2020
AustralianSuper is pledging to achieve net-zero carbon emissions in its investment portfolios and ramping up its commitment to renewables. Following a board meeting in October, the super fund decided it was in members' best interest that it positions ...

Rest climate case dismissed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2020
... financial risks of climate change on behalf of its members," the fund said. It committed to achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050 and to a series of other actions in relation to climate change, all of which the fund said McVeigh acknowledges and ...

IFM jumps on net zero bandwagon

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020
... risk-adjusted returns for its investors and their members and beneficiaries. IFM is implementing strategies to reduce carbon emissions across its infrastructure portfolio companies by putting in place targets at Australian assets to reduce emissions ...