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Industry fund awards $150m mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2019
... Global Aggregate Index. AIM will provide investors an annual report measuring the positive impacts of bond-funded climate change mitigation and adaptation, global sustainable development, along with the financial returns. Last year, the impact fund manager ...

Chief economist update: Will Australia avoid another global recession?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2019
... low on bullets. There's Trump's war (trade or otherwise) with everybody - China, Mexico, Iran, the EU, climate change, etc. The debilitating effect of which has now prompted Japan and South Korea to engage in a trade war of their own. There's ...

Fossil fuel holdings cost BlackRock investors $90bn

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2019
... that climate risk was barely mentioned. As the world's leading passive investor, BlackRock's "inaction on climate change is financially perilous," it said. "BlackRock must invite greater investee board and public engagement scrutiny, implement ...

Suncorp pressured on coal

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2019
... insurance business. The group said as insurers are exposed to the financial risks caused by the physical impacts of climate change such as drought, bushfire, storms and cyclones, Suncorp has more reason than most to act on the issue. Market Forces is ...

AMP Capital revamps ethical super funds

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2019
... screen is the result of extensive research on how we can best support our clients' objective to support action on climate change while investing in companies that are supporting a transition to a renewable economy." AMP Capital is also launching an industry-first ...

Irish pension funds reduce equity exposure

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2019
... coming into force in October 2019. Both these regulatory initiatives require pension funds to take ESG factors like climate change into account when making investment decisions.

Impact investing under threat

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2019
... others. I'm not knocking them as an asset class but I'm saying if people think that's the answer to climate change and other challenges - it's not," Palmer says. "It's capital going to the bank, it's not money that's exposed ...

New climate risk government bond index launches

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2019
A new climate risk government bond index has launched, allowing investors to incorporate climate change risk considerations into portfolios for the first time. Global index provider FTSE Russell launched the FTSE Climate Risk-Adjusted World Government ...

Pension giant awards $1bn in mandates

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2019
... pricing and enhanced climate-related disclosure. "We believe that how the world responds to the risks associated with climate change, as detailed by peer reviewed scientific reports, including those from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ...

Industry funds could solve energy crisis: ISA

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2019
... levels." This is where industry super believes it has the power to make change. ISA chair and former Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency Greg Combet said industry funds were ready to help the Government address these issues, with "the purpose ...