Nest: Investing for Mega-trends Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, ESG Mega-trends are at the front and centre of the National Employment Savings Trust’s (Nest’s) thinking when it comes to how it runs its money, with plans to increase tilts to climate aware equities and expand these to other asset classes. Read More
Reflections on Governance at NZ Super Asset Owners, ESG, Women in Finance Catherine Savage retired as Chair of New Zealand Super at the end of March this year, after 12 years on the board, five of which as chair and almost a decade as Deputy Chair. [i3] Insights spoke to Savage about the essential ingredients of good governance. Read More
Tackling Net Zero by 2050 Asset Owners, ESG Cbus has conducted a review of the asset classes in its portfolio to see how the fund can prepare for reaching the target of net carbon neutrality by 2050. Read More
Achieving Net Zero Targets ESG, Webinars Governments and institutions are now formally committing to do more by legislating or setting “Net Zero” targets in the near future. This will have a major impact on economies and markets. Read More
Climate Change is Biggest Market Failure ESG The lack of markets to reflect the true cost of climate change is their biggest failure yet, but investors, regulators and policymakers should work together to get this issue onto companies’ balance sheets, Aviva Investors’ Steve Waygood says. Read More
A Guide to ESG in Australasia ESG, Guides In this guide, we aim to give a brief overview of some of the key trends and developments in ESG in Australia and New Zealand. We address the unique circumstances of Australian economy, climate change, modern slavery and more. Read More
Raising Awareness of ESG Materiality Equities, ESG In this interview with Trillium’s Matt Patsky, we tackle some of the most contentious ESG issues, including the gender pay gap and the decline of fossil fuel demand. We also look at how investors can use shareholder resolutions to raise awareness of issues that are ignored by companies. Read More
Climate Transition: Beyond Low Carbon Investing Equities, ESG, Webinars In partnership with Aviva Investors, [i3] convened a webinar to discuss the implications of climate transition to investors’ portfolios. With combined backgrounds in Environmental Biology, Environmental Technology and Finance, Rick Stathers and Jaime Ramos Martin shared their perspectives on how investors can go beyond low carbon investing to build resilience into portfolios. Key issues included: The […] Read More
WTW Adopts Diversity Scores ESG, Women in Finance Willis Towers Watson has introduced new inclusion and diversity scores to assess progress among asset managers and sets itself targets to discover best-in-class managers. Read More