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Technology to transform coming decades

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2020
... making. Despite this, KPMG predicts that Australia will continue to burn fossil fuels. "Australia will have a smaller fleet of coal-fired generation facilities. Fossil fuels will still be around but the low cost of renewables, carbon prices and a desire ...

Aussie stocks burnt in blaze

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2020
... be impacted by an increase in claims. The report also suggests implications for Orica, Graincorp, Boral, BHP, Whitehaven Coal, Caltex, Viva Energy, Spark Infrastructure, and AusNet Services. It comes just three days after Super Retail Group announced ...

Opt-out super to hit workers: ISA

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2020
New Industry Super Australia research claims to show plans to make superannuation optional for low-income workers is nothing more than a tax grab. According to ISA's latest analysis, low-income workers in New South Wales who chose to take their superannuation ...

BlackRock wakes up to climate change

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2020
BlackRock will double its ESG ETF offerings, dump investments in thermal coal and increase sustainable assets under management tenfold this decade. All this, just six months after it was revealed that BlackRock lost more than $133 billion by investing ...

Chief economist update: Missing the burning forests for the surplus tree

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JAN 2020
"From a practical perspective, big, impactful and very novel disasters will, hopefully, lead to stronger action to both mitigate emissions and also plan for impacts..." This was Ketan Joshi's - University of Sydney science graduate and international ...

Government ignored ASIC over LIC carve-out

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 6 JAN 2020
Documents released under Freedom of Information laws reveal the government ignored ASIC's advice to not create a carve-out for LICs and LITs in the Future of Financial Advice conflicted commission ban. According to documents published last week under ...

Market Forces takes aim at big banks

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2019
... bank's credibility is already in tatters due to a massive surge in fossil fuel lending and exposure. Its continued support for coal companies such as Whitehaven, which, in clear breach of NABs own stipulations, still has no transition plan, highlights ...

Pendal cuts fee on multi-asset fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2019
... not invest in companies materially involved producing tobacco, alcohol gaming facilities, weapons, pornography or thermal coal production among others. The fund's five year annualised returns are 6.44% after fees compared to the benchmark's 8.38% ...

Industry fund for coal miners on ESG journey

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2019
Mine Super, the $11 billion industry fund for the coal mining industry, has clarified its position on a number of ESG issues. Vasyl Nair is the chief risk officer for Mine Super, he recently spoke at a panel on ESG issues at the annual Investment Performance ...

Fossil fuel exposures climb at UniSuper

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2019
... annual climate risk disclosures released yesterday. At June end, UniSuper had 12% of its exposures in companies involved in coal, gas and oil. This is up from 18 months ago, when 8% of the fund's exposures were in fossil fuels. The fund has holdings ...