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Directors urged to exercise legal duties over climate risk as context evolves

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), and, in Australia, prior to developments including the Hutley opinion and statements by ASIC, APRA, the RBA and the AASB regarding material disclosures of climate risk. Further, at the time, there was a lack ...

ASIC critiques management of non-financial risk in governance review

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2019  |  NEWS
... important elements of non-financial risk management," according to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). Matthew Bell, EY Oceania climate change and sustainability leader ASIC this week released Director and officer oversight of ...

DomaCom points to wind farm crowdfunding campaign as model

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
... New England region of New South Wales, and Naoumidis said there was interest from interstate as well. DomaCom Fund is an ASIC registered Managed Investment Scheme (MIS) that permits investment in properties via a syndicate/fractional investment structure ...

ASIC report finds 17% of ASX300 identify climate as material risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2018  |  NEWS
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has issued its first report on climate risk disclosures by ASX300 companies. While the statistics discussed in the report are familiar to those who have read similar reports by investment bodies ...

Reports analyse landscape for sustainability disclosures by corporate Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... readiness of those companies," Petersen said. "... That raises questions for institutions like the ASX, like APRA, and like ASIC, including are those institutions climate-risk ready as well? We've heard many statements by Geoff Summerhayes, John Price ...

Government finds no legislative barriers to implementing TCFD

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... strengthen stewardship expectations including TCFD implementation. Finally, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) should review guidance to directors on climate risk and monitor the quality of climate risk disclosure." Barker of ...

Thorn agrees to ASIC undertaking for refunds, write-offs for goods leases

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2018  |  NEWS
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) has announced regulatory outcomes against Thorn's consumer leasing businesses Radio Rentals, RR and Rentlo Reinvented that will see millions in dollars of refunds and write-offs of fees to consumers. ...

APRA encourages entities to perform stress-test for climate-related risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2017  |  NEWS
... well-resourced and complex entities." "Externally, APRA has commenced discussions with Treasury, as well as fellow regulators ASIC and the RBA, on the sustainability and financial risk dimensions of the economy related to climate change," Summerhayes ...

Negatively screened funds grow by over 2500% in New Zealand: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2017  |  NEWS
... Partly it's because with KiwiSaver, there are full portfolio holdings disclosure requirements. You would have noted that ASIC have deferred that to 2019. The path we're going on, and this is something of a signal to the market that we could expect to ...

Directors, senior executives have obligation to consider climate change: Norton Rose Fulbright

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2017  |  NEWS
... and physical, Norton Rose said. Norton Rose pointed to statements by the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) last month at a Senate Economics References Committee public hearing for an inquiry into carbon risk disclosure. The report ...