CLIMATE CHANGE

Funds management

US energy stocks look an attractive investment opportunity, according to Allan Gray, as the sector hits 30-year lows. ...

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...

Superannuation

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

Funds management

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

Funds management

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

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....

Funds management

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

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...

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...

Financial planning

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

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....

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 ...

People & Products

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

Superannuation

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

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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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

5 months ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

5 months ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

7 months ago

Commonwealth Bank has formally dropped to zero advisers following LGT Crestone’s acquisition of its advice arm – some six years on from the Hayne royal commission. ...

4 weeks ago

The FSCP has issued a written direction to an adviser who charged clients “extraordinary fees” for inappropriate and conflicted advice, as well as encouraged them to swit...

1 week 3 days ago

ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

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