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Fidelity adds new climate, gender policies

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2021
... Fidelity said it will vote against the management of companies that don't meet minimum requirements under its climate change policy from 2022. "At Fidelity, we believe that exercising our ownership rights by voting at company meetings is a fundamental ...

ACSI launches new climate change policy

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 26 APR 2021
The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) may now recommend super funds vote against companies that fail on climate-related risk. The newly updated policy from ACSI aims to improve how companies approach climate change risk. The policy ...

Rest climate case dismissed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2020
... diligence and monitoring of investment managers' approaches to climate risk and continuing to to develop a climate change policy and internal risk framework. "Today's settlement gives me, and Rest's almost two million members, the reassurance that ...

Investors should factor in climate risk: JANA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2020
... should take more action to address climate change and had provided insufficient certainty to investors around climate change policy. The survey also revealed more than 80% of respondents believe climate change presents a real risk to investment concerns ...

Academics protest UniSuper investments

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2020
... sure our savings are invested in a safe and clean future." UniSuper has released a number of updates on its climate change policy, most recently in November of last year. The fund said it encourages the companies it is invested in to meet the expectations ...

UniSuper on climate chopping block

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2020
... can and must be at the vanguard of sustainable investment." UniSuper has released number of updates on its climate change policy, most recently in November of last year. The Climate risk and our investments report outlined that the fund encourages the ...

JANA dragged into Rest legal stoush

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 7 JAN 2020
... wants his super fund to provide around its approach to climate change. All drafts and versions of Rest's climate change policy will be on the table. Rest's general manager investments Brendan Casey was named in the discovery orders along with ...

First carbon neutral super fund named

KRISTI CHENG  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2019
... is a member of the Investor Group on Climate Change and the Climate Action 100+, which push for improved climate change policy and action from governments and organisations around the globe. In July this year, HESTA invested $20 million to help improve ...

Fossil fuelled Ireland to divest for climate change

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2018
... 2018 Climate Change Performance Index saw Ireland ranked last among European Union states for its national climate change policy. Worldwide it placed 49th, though this was eight places higher than Australia. Ireland is also one of the few EU member states ...

CBA climate risk court case abandoned

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2017
... risk and confirming it will not participate in the Adani mining project. CBA also came under fire for its climate change policy - released in conjunction with its annual report - which showed the bank's failure to phase out investments in industries ...
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