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Industry fund cuts property portfolio emissions

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2018
... chief investment officer Kristian Fok laid out a roadmap of what the fund wants to achieve at the recent Global Climate Action Summit held in San Francisco. He said the move was based on a commercial decision that reflects the super fund's values as ...

Industry super fund commits to green bonds

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2018
... Bonds Initiative chief executive Sean Kidney said green finance was now a critical area for the mainstreaming of climate action. "The foundation signatories are to be congratulated," Kidney said. "By signing the Pledge they are opening another path for ...

Church threatens to dump $21bn of fossil fuels

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2018
... better accords with their strategy. "It gives engagement the time it needs. And it is aligned with the timeframe for Climate Action 100+, a global collaborative engagement initiative by investors with $30 trillion in assets, in which the national investing ...

Industry super fund grows ESG team

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 AUG 2017
... division with the help of a climate expert. Vision Super is recruiting for an environmental activist who will join the climate action team and help promote the super fund's sustainable balanced option investment. Chief executive Stephen Rowe said Vision ...

Catholic Super chief addresses climate conference

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2015
... 300 investors from 25 countries and collaborated in nine climate change initiatives. Pegan spoke at the session "Climate Action Dialogue - Investor Actions on Climate Change: Building on momentum past Paris." He represented Australian and New Zealand ...

Super funds under growing global pressure to divest

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2015
... Fossil Free campaigners are engaging with super funds directly, but also encouraging members to "push for positive climate action." A number of super funds have recently reduced their exposure to fossil fuels, a sign that the debate and public perception ...

FEATURE: 2014 year in review

MARK SMITH, LAURA MILLAN, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
... historic deal to significantly curb their carbon emissions. While the Australian government may have moved away from climate action, Australian institutional investors took some major steps towards reducing their own exposure to what has become known ...
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