CLIMATE CHANGE

Expert Analysis

While fossil-fuel consumption has been successfully overlooked in the past, investment portfolios with direct exposure to fossil fuel-based energy businesses, utilities o...

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Superannuation

Climate change has the ability to erode super balances and increase the reliance on the Age Pension, according to the Actuaries Institute. ...

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Funds management

Investors will need to revise their expectations downwards as a direct result of the impact of climate change, according to Frontier Advisors....

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Funds management

The $150 million Sunsuper mandate has been awarded to Affirmative Investment Management and aims to generate positive environmental and social impact projects....

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Funds management

FTSE Russell has announced the launch of its first climate risk government bond index, the FTSE Climate Risk-Adjusted World Government Bond Index....

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Funds management

The funds that have incorporated responsible investing principles outperformed most mainstream Australian and international peers, according to a report by the Responsibl...

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Life/Risk

Digital technology’s clash with legacy infrastructure and the spread of 5G mobile networks are among risks identified by Swiss Re Institute in its latest insurance risk r...

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Policy & Regulation

Banks, insurers and super trustees need to do more than talk the talk where climate change is concerned, with a key regulator urging them to also act to mitigate risks to...

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Financial planning

More financial institutions, including a Chinese financier, two European insurers and a French asset manager, joined to restrict coal finance....

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Expert Analysis

As the initial gloss wears off sustainable investing, Masja Zandbergen writes that it’s prudent to maintain a watching brief on potential issues and respond accordingly....

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Expert Analysis

Pablo Berrutti writes that as regulators and companies show increasing focus on climate change, investors cannot afford either financially or ethically to look away from ...

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People & Products

Industry fund Vision Super is breaking new ground by moving to employ an environmental activist to help shape investment decisions....

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Superannuation

Lending companies need to direct capital in a way which limits climate change, Australia Ethical believes....

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Funds management

Monash University issued the world’s first green climate bond from a uni, which would contribute to its net zero emissions, according to the institution. ...

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Financial planning

Super funds are failing to effectively engage with companies on climate change as they continue to support executive remuneration incentives based on the expansion of fos...

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