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Resolution Capital adds infrastructure fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 5 OCT 2021
... focus, particularly in regard to climate change risk, excluding any investments that the manager believes won't meet Paris Agreement targets. This may include oil and gas transportation and storage, Resolution Capital said. This is a real point of ...

Catholic Super adds to trustee board

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2021
A former Commonwealth Bank and Perpetual executive has joined the board of Catholic Super, adding more than 25 years of experience. Matthew Cassin joined the fund's board last month, with Catholic Super chair Danny Casey seeing his experience in achieving ...

BNP Paribas launches sustainable trusts

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 17 SEP 2021
... the firm's global sustainability strategy and are supported by the BNP Paribas Asset Management Sustainability Centre in Paris, Hong Kong, and New York. The Green Bond Trust invests in global green bonds which finance projects designed to mitigate or ...

MSCI launches implied temperature tool

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2021
... which recommends all financial institutions measure and disclose the alignment of their portfolios with the goals of the Paris Agreement using forward-looking metrics. "Climate change is the greatest challenge of our time and capital markets participants ...

UniSuper moves on climate targets

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2021
... climate policy update, 40 of UniSuper's top 50 Australian portfolio companies have now set operational targets to meet the Paris 2050 climate targets with another five committed to setting targets this year. The holdings that have set targets include ...

Fidelity adds new climate, gender policies

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2021
... carbon and other greenhouse gas emissions. This includes setting and reporting on ambitious targets aligned to the UN's Paris Agreement on climate change including an approach to net zero." Fidelity said it will vote against the management of companies ...

Top economist Don Stammer to fund UNE scholarship

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2021
... who then went on to become Reserve Bank governors. "In 1979, I wrote to Ian Macfarlane, who was at that time with OECD in Paris, offering him a senior position in the research department of the Reserve Bank of Australia. The same year, I recruited a ...

Weeding out net zero fakers

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2021
... other side it's not just companies making these commitments, investors are now committing to net zero in line with the Paris Agreement - especially institutional investors like super funds. And this could change the quality of action from companies ...

More super funds make climate commitments

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 17 MAY 2021
More financial institutions have signed up to Climate League 2030, which seeks to achieve Paris-aligned emissions reductions in Australia by 2030. TelstraSuper, ISPT, U Ethical and Teachers Mutual Bank today joined over a dozen institutional investors ...

TIAA commits to net zero

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2021
... account's efforts as we continue to press carbon-intensive companies and individual assets to align with the goals of the Paris Agreement." TIAA will implement five-year interim carbon emission targets leading up to 2050. The first target is set ...