ESG

Investor Profile

MP Pension’s full embrace of ESG

The $17.4 billion Danish fund for academics is emphasising all three letters in ESG. Its portfolio is shedding fossil fuels as it advocates for diversity and plots a new sustainable strategy.

Sarah RundellNovember 9, 2018

Manager Relationships

Cbus benchmarks managers on climate risk

The $32.5 billion Australian superannuation fund has set emissions targets for portfolios and incorporated TCFD disclosure rules as it makes climate risk management a factor in awarding mandates.

October 30, 2018

FIS Stanford 2018

Protecting human capital helps everyone

Investors have plenty to gain from helping to protect human rights in supply chains and managing the human costs during technological disruption and the transition to a low-carbon economy.

Sarah RundellOctober 12, 2018

FIS Stanford 2018

Time for a carbon tax: George Shultz

Economics professor George Shultz told delegates a revenue-neutral carbon tax would have corporate support and would be effective, during a discussion of US and global climate policy.

Sarah RundellOctober 4, 2018

FIS Stanford 2018

Disruptive renewables evolving faster

The pace of innovation in renewables has gone from incremental to rapid in recent years, fuelled by improvements in cost and performance. This has made ideas like solar truly disruptive at last.

Sarah RundellOctober 4, 2018