Climate Change

Schemes must factor in climate change risk to their asset allocation strategies over the next two decades or face losing trillions of pounds, Mercer warns.

Pension funds and asset managers belonging to the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change will be balloted this week to assess their ethical investment performance.

AUSTRALIA - The chief executives of nine superannuation funds and investment management firms have formed a new panel to address climate change.

The Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change has issued guidance to help pension funds understand the climate risks in property investment.

Laura Blows finds out how CRC energy efficiency regulations for corporate bodies will affect scheme trustees, and looks at the likely financial impact of the rules on property investments

On the 10th anniversary of the introduction of responsible investment disclosure rules, JONATHAN STAPLETON assesses how they have changed scheme behaviour and what the future holds

The number of investors considering climate change policies as key to manager selection has doubled since 2007, but the actual integration of these policies into investment mandates has failed to take off, a report by the Institutional Investors Group...

A coalition of 141 institutional and individual investors has demanded oil giant Shell report on the investment risks associated with its controversial Canadian oil sands project.

GLOBAL - A coalition of 141 institutional and individual investors has demanded oil giant Shell report on the investment risks associated with its controversial Canadian oil sands project.

Pension fund apathy on environmental issues twinned with short-term analysis of the problem has suppressed the inclusion of climate change in investment decision making, research shows.