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Super funds condemn Trump climate withdrawal

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2017
... Agreement was costing the US "millions of jobs." ACSI countered that its members have made ongoing efforts to incorporate climate risk into their investment processes, because climate change presents a material risk to the long-term performance of retirement ...

Investors torn over ESG capabilities

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2017
... of prominent advocates, [however] in our view it's incomplete," Wong said. "While we certainly don't dismiss the climate risk associated with fossil fuel assets or carbon reserves, we believe that they represent a less effective yardstick for addressing ...

Markets ignoring climate crisis: Hewson

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2017
... said they didn't have the resources to implement that kind of plan, even though, say, Catholic Super has dedicated climate risk management staff," Hewson said. "It's not about scale. It's about commitment. And because financial markets don't really understand ...

Industry realigns for climate change

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 21 FEB 2017
Australia's financial services industry and regulators no longer broadly consider climate change to be a separate, distant or "non-financial" issue. APRA member Geoff Summerhayes' speech on the topic at the Insurance Council of Australia Annual Forum ...

Climate calling

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 9 JAN 2017
... managers. They're not used to their clients asking about carbon footprints or specifically whether they're addressing climate risk," Cheang says. The full article appears in the latest edition of FS Super - The Journal of Superannuation Management. You ...

NZ Super tackles climate change

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2016
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund is implementing a four-pronged climate change strategy across its entire NZ$30 billion investment portfolio. Representing a fundamental shift for the fund and the industry, NZ Super will reduce its carbon investment ...

Climate risk underappreciated: BlackRock

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2016
... outperform the index amid tighter regulations, faster technological changes or more frequent weather events. "We believe climate risk factors have been under-appreciated and underpriced because they are perceived to be distant," said Ewen Cameron Watt ...

Suncorp boss in hot water over climate change

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2016
... difficult to quantify." This comment indicated to some industry commentators that the group intended to deal with climate risk after-the-fact and reactively, rather than addressing its potential causes. However, Suncorp's annual review concluded its ...

Swedish pension giant commits to total decarbonisation

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2016
... biggest single commitment to low carbon investing by an institutional investor. In order to reduce its exposure to climate risk, The Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund, known as AP4, has allocated 21.8 %, or around $4.2 billion of its global equity ...

Credit ratings agencies sign PRI statement

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2016
... Ratings, Moody's, Dagong, Scope, RAM Ratings and Liberum Ratings. Managing director and head of environmental and climate risk research at S&P Global Ratings, Michael Wilkins, said the agency was "keenly aware of this growing [investor] interest in quantifying ...