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Super funds, banks say cybersecurity is now their biggest concern

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2025
... among superannuation trustees. Financial risks such as credit risk and market risk, financial system stability, and climate risk, received a critical and high-risk rating of 32%, 27%, and 21%, respectively. Additionally, 13% of entities identified at ...

Australia progresses climate transition disclosures, planning

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2025
Australia is showing progress with disclosing and adopting its clean energy transition initiatives as investors' demand for credible emissions reduction strategies grows, a study from MSCI shows. Among listed Australian companies analysed in the APAC ...

Investors face headwinds in integrating physical climate risks

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2025
... collaborating with research houses for it, the report noted some funds are investing in new geospatial and satellite-based climate risk analytics to improve the quality of location-specific risk assessments. Some are also integrating catastrophe modelling ...

Nuveen reaches $650m in commitments for local RE debt strategy

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2025
... long-term investment in this space, Nuveen said. The strategy also includes waste reduction and energy consumption, climate risk analysis and social aspects to structure green loans or sustainable linked loans where applicable. Nuveen head of Australia ...

BlackRock hires Housing Australia treasury chief

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
... Finance Steering Committee and serving as deputy chair of the NSW Sustainability Bond Committee. She also chaired the Climate Risk Steering Group from 2019 to 2022, establishing governance frameworks for climate-related financial risk management across ...

Greenwashing remains an enforcement priority: ASIC

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
... reporting entities is very significant... it's also really important for addressing the financial system's climate risk," she said. ASIC's three-pronged approach is to provide regulatory guidance, the discretion to provide regulatory relief ...

Super funds put foot down on Woodside

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2025
... resilience to transition risks, the lack of an ambitious Scope 3 GHG emissions abatement target, and its governance around climate risk. "As we've previously communicated to Woodside Energy, our decision is underpinned by our belief that climate change ...

Australian Ethical calls out QBE

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025
... decades. This follows QBE's 2024 reporting that it has already begun to exit property insurance exposures due to climate risk. Australian Ethical said it is concerned that despite this, QBE's policy allows it to continue to underwrite new oil ...

New gig for Challenger's ESG specialist

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2025
... joined Challenger as a risk professional in 2016 but quickly moved into ESG covering the global regulatory landscape, climate risk and PRI reporting, O'Meara is also responsible for the firm's modern slavery statement and leads the modern slavery ...

CEFC funds sustainable real estate credit projects

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2025
... to operational energy efficiency and embodied carbon, as well as meeting additional requirements around physical climate risk assessments and consideration of stretch targets aligned to the International Energy Agency definition for zero-carbon-ready ...