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Super fund climate risk assessment results released

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2022
... from a changing climate. Out of the 64 institutions that responded to the survey, four out of five boards oversee climate risk on a regular basis, while 63% have incorporated climate risk into their strategic planning process. Further, 73% of responding ...

Cyber attacks scare directors: WTW

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 22 APR 2022
... attack. As a result, governments and regulators have been alerted to ransomware and extortion activity." The other big risk on the minds of company leadership is climate change. COP26 combined with increasing governmental and regulatory measures has ...

Economic recap: Week to November 5

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2021
... goals". While financial markets generally expected the RBA and the Fed's decisions, it was the BOE's that sealed the risk on move in the first week of November - it decided to keep monetary policy settings unchanged despite consensus expectations ...

Super fund liquidity could be better: RBA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2021
... pay more than $17 billion of margin to counterparties as they used currency derivatives to hedge foreign exchange rate risk on foreign-denominated investments. "Fund-level data show that funds with larger hedging ratios going into the pandemic tended ...

Fund managers' ESG beef

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2020
... market in the Chinese city of Wuhan originally. FAIRR found that 73% of the companies on the index were graded as high risk on the 'pandemic criteria' - this criteria attempts to prevent future zootonic (originating from animals) pandemics by assessing ...

Balanced options in the red, but only just

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
... from the ASX in June, Dunnin said, as well as a lift in international shares, emerging markets and corporate bonds. This "risk on" appetite can particularly be seen in the success of Cbus's growth option, which has now returned 0.75% for the financial ...

Global manager rolls out local access to alternatives fund

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2020
... protection strategies that aim to provide positive returns in down markets and are the mirror image of the diversified "risk on" strategies we use to generate returns in normal markets," Elms said. The firm's local boss, Matt Gaden said Janus Henderson ...

Pandemic puts pressure on ETF spreads

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020
... are probably better-placed than anyone to understand what the prices are of some of these fixed-interest products - take risk on their balance sheets to maintain a market. "And in those cases, we then see the ETFs actually providing a more accurate reflection ...

Carbon footpath important, not footprint: AXA

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2020
... not "sophisticated enough" to address climate change risk. "As investors look to address the impact of climate change risk on their investment portfolios, it is important to note that aiming to reduce point-in-time carbon footprint through a divestment-led ...

Put risk on the super comparison table: AMP

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2019
As APRA prepares its traffic light rating system for super funds, AMP's head of wealth warns risk needs to be on the table to ensure consumers compare apples with apples. Chief executive of AMP's Australian wealth management division Alex Wade ...