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Climate change to shrink investment by $5.7trn

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2015

Climate change to impact financial systems

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2015
Research by The Climate Institute concludes Australia's financial system may be vulnerable to climate change. The institute argues this is based on several factors, including the country's "carbon-intensive economy, lack of policy clarity and reliance ...

Lonsec launches ESG metric

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2015
... amidst rising preference for ESG-minded investment - for example, avoiding investment in companies involved in climate change, human rights abuses, child labour, controversial weapons (defined as "cluster bombs, landmines, depleted uranium, and chemical ...

Climate change to impact returns: Mercer

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2015

Universities at fossil fuel divestment frontlines

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... negative reaction we saw from the media and Government was clear proof of our own government's inadequate response to climate change. Given that state of affairs, though, it's really important universities do show leadership in this space." Environmental ...

Future Fund ranks worst in managing climate risk

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
The Future Fund ranked worst in managing climate change risk, along with three other top superannuation funds in Australia, an Asset Owners Disclosure Project (AODP) global survey revealed. REST, Telstra Super, Super SA, Asgard and GESB also received ...

ACSI names new chief executive

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2015
... investor collaboration through her roles as chair of the PRI Australia Network and secretary of the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC). In 2013, she was listed in the Australian Financial Review's 100 Women of Influence. ACSI has 31 Australian member ...

ESG becoming essential to insto alternative investment

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015
... participants believed their stakeholders had ESG concerns. According to the report, the most common cited ESG issues were climate change, human rights abuses, child labour, controversial weapons (defined as "cluster bombs, landmines, depleted uranium ...

Oil price shock, nice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2015
I thought that in my lifetime I would never see someone out there in this galaxy wishin' and hopin' and prayin' higher oil prices to be. (Apart from those extracting, producing, investing in and lending to oil companies and nations, that is). And oh ...

FEATURE: 2014 year in review

MARK SMITH, LAURA MILLAN, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
... cover. Group insurance would then lose its main selling point: its low cost. Fossil fuel divestment and screening Climate change was squarely back on the global political agenda in 2014, with the US and China - the world's two biggest carbon dioxide ...