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Climate change-focused fund introduced

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2020
Aviva Investors has launched a climate-change related fund that tilts towards companies transitioning to a low carbon economy. The Aviva Investors Climate Transition Global Equity Fund is benchmarked to outperform the MSCI All Countries World Index ...

Aware Super cuts carbon emissions by 40%

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020
Australia's second largest super fund has managed to reduce the carbon footprint of its equities portfolio by 40%. The $130 billion industry fund (formerly First State Super) has created a series of new listed equities benchmarks that will support the ...

AustralianSuper hires for investment team

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2020
... positions at Morgan Stanley, Barclays Capital and Societe Generale. Last week, AustralianSuper promised to go net-zero in carbon emissions by 2050 to mitigate against the risk of climate change on its portfolio's long-term performance. Activist group ...

AustralianSuper net-zero promise flawed: MarketForces

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2020
AustralianSuper's promise to go net-zero in carbon emissions by 2050 fails to "match, let alone improve on" what its peer funds are doing, says MarketForces. Last Thursday, AustralianSuper said it would target net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 to ...

World largest asset owners increase ESG, AUM

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2020
... ownership more steadily, aiming to have actual impacts by reporting on the impacts of their investment strategies and reducing carbon emissions from portfolios. Thinking Ahead Institute co-founder Roger Urwin said the larger funds within the AO100 are ...

Climate change reporting is cheap talk: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2020
... provide little information to identify green companies in brown sectors," the paper, Green Data or Greenwashing? Do Corporate Carbon Emissions Data Enable Investors to Mitigate Climate Change? reads. To help mitigate climate change, investors tend to ...

Mercer launches climate-transition tool

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020
... reduction by 2030. The advice and analytics tool ranks portfolios from low-transition capacity (gray investments), low-carbon risk to climate solutions (green investments). This is done by assessing emissions intensity, transition capacity and green ...

AustralianSuper backs net-zero emissions

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2020
AustralianSuper is pledging to achieve net-zero carbon emissions in its investment portfolios and ramping up its commitment to renewables. Following a board meeting in October, the super fund decided it was in members' best interest that it positions ...

Aware Super backs electricity transition

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2020
... year between 2023 and 2040. Earlier this year, Aware outlined a number of targets to transition its portfolio for a low-carbon future. "We believe this transition is essential to providing our members with the best possible sustainable long-term returns," ...

Rest climate case dismissed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2020
... with the financial risks of climate change on behalf of its members," the fund said. It committed to achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050 and to a series of other actions in relation to climate change, all of which the fund said McVeigh acknowledges ...