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Three Aus funds awarded AAA climate rating

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2016
... foundations and endowments with a total of $US37 trillion assets under management (AUM) - on their efforts at managing climate risk within their portfolios. Based on direct disclosures and publicly available information, they are graded from AAA to D ...

AustralianSuper launches new SRI investment option

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2016
... first of its kind for AustralianSuper and testament to the growing push from fund members towards funds which address climate risk. However, creating a single sustainable option is not an adequate response to a systemic issue such as climate change," ...

CalPERS urges Rio Tinto to report climate change risk

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2016
... will be based on direct disclosure and publicly available information and will analyse how institutions are managing climate risk; investing in the low-carbon economy; and engaging with investee companies on these issues. The group plans to rate the ...

Catholic Super chief addresses climate conference

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2015
... Conference in Paris on Friday, Pegan spoke about the role of investors engaging across the value chain to promote climate risk management. He said collaboration gives investors power to engage. During Pegan's presentation the Institutional Investors ...

Future Fund ranks worst in managing climate risk

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... rates the world's largest asset owners, which collectively hold assets worth over US$40 trillion, on how they manage climate risk. The funds that rated worst did not disclose any information on their climate change risk management practices to the AODP ...

Cbus, NZ Super join Mercer climate change risk study

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
Cbus and the New Zealand Super Fund have joined a number of international investors backing Mercer's new study of the investment risks and returns under climate change scenarios. Mercer said the study would be "framed by several plausible climate scenarios ...

Pension funds reckless on climate risk: Hewson

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012
... survey of the world's 1,000 largest retirement funds, insurance companies and sovereign wealth funds' management of climate risk paints a disturbing overall picture of greenwash (sic) and reckless mismanagement but with some signs of progress," said ...

Future Fund 'under-resourced' on climate risks

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012
Still smarting over a Senate Committee gruelling over its tobacco investments, the Future Fund - the largest fund in Australia - is being accused of insufficient transparency over climate-change risk mitigation within its portfolio. A FOI search two ...

Super funds cautioned on climate risk

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012
... "There is an increased need for asset owners to quantify risk using tools that help with Quant Modelling to include climate risk factors, such as through multi factor models used for strategic asset allocation." Funds should then be using qualitative ...

Super funds fail green assessment

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2011
... Survey on Climate Change, the European Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC), Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR) and the Australia/New Zealand Investor Group on Climate Change said that with no climate policies in place the chances ...