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Acadian talks big data 2.0, launches A-shares strategy

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2018
... portfolio manager Asha Mehta. In Sydney recently to speak with institutional investors, Mehta said governance and carbon risk were two examples where quant managers needed to be more forward-looking when sizing up investment opportunities. She said new ...

Super fund investment transparency can improve

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2016
... analyst Daniel Gocher said: "At a time when investors around the world are under increasing pressure to disclose the carbon risk in their portfolios, the Australian super industry has a trillion dollar secret. Australians are in the dark about whether ...

Vision Super divests from three high carbon companies

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2016
... index portfolio to the IFM Low Carbon Australian Shares fund, reducing exposure to Australian companies with a high carbon risk. The fund is also a signatory to the Paris Pledge for Action - an initiative aligned with the 2015 UN Climate Talks in Paris ...

Swedish pension giant commits to total decarbonisation

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2016
... director and global head of research at MSCI added: "AP4 has spearheaded investment thinking and behaviour on addressing carbon risk. We are proud to license them our MSCI Low Carbon indexes as the benchmarks for their allocation to low carbon strategies ...

FEATURE: 2014 year in review

MARK SMITH, LAURA MILLAN, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
... Australian institutional investors took some major steps towards reducing their own exposure to what has become known as "carbon risk". Local Government Super (LGS) and HESTA became the first multi-billion dollar super funds to introduce a fossil fuel ...

Asset consultants urged to get savvy on carbon risk

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2014
... Impax Asset Management managing director Bruce Jenkyn-Jones. Jenkyn-Jones, whose UK-based fund specialises in low-carbon risk investments, said that we are now at a stage where the risks of climate change can be meaningfully measured. However, with the ...

Climate induced GFC a 'very real' risk: Hewson

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
... Asset Owners' Disclosure Project, a movement which pressures the 1000 largest global pension funds to disclose their carbon risk. Those 1000 funds account for US$75 trillion. One "disturbing feature" of these pension funds, he said, "is they invest 55% ...

Get ready for activist members, super funds told

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014
... not sure that divestment changes or addresses the problem. Hence we actively engage with companies on considering carbon risk." On the Environment, Social and Governance acumen of New Zealand fund managers, she said: "Our managers aren't quite up there ...

LGS carbon screening possible, but not imminent

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2013
... Hartnett told Financial Standard. "The coal sector and coal utilities are areas that we've identified as being high carbon risk but I've got to set straight, there's no decision being made today. Any review that we do will be an internal review, in February ...

LUCRF to assess climate change investment risks

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2013
Industry fund LUCRF Super will investigate the level of its exposure to 'carbon risks' as part of a move to prepare for the potential investment risks of climate change. The decision is part of a wider policy that saw the $3.8 billion fund recently ...

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Former chief financial officer at Rest returns in new role

VINNY VUCAGO
Rest is welcoming back its former chief financial officer as its inaugural chief commercial officer.

Macquarie chair provides 'cautious' outlook at AGM

ELIZA BAVIN
Macquarie Group has provided its first quarter update at its AGM, with outgoing chief executive Shemara Wikramanayake describing trading conditions as "satisfactory".

GDG delivers 36% jump in FUM

RIDDHIMA TALWANI
Generation Development Group has reported strong growth to the year ending June 30.

Aussie Olympian's brother sentenced over crypto scam

RIDDHIMA TALWANI
The brother of Australian breakdancing Olympian 'Raygun' has been sentenced 12 months' imprisonment for his role in a global cryptocurrency scam.

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