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Green bond issuance could hit close to US$300 billion: Insight Investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... growth of the green bond market, Insight Investment noted that in 2019, the core sectors of financials, governments, utilities, energy and industrials all experienced significant growth in issuance in 2019, "with financials leading the charge, adding ...

ESG data can augment low-volatility quant strategies: Northern Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... alpha. Typically, low-volatility strategies mitigate equity risks and have large overweights to defensive sectors such as utilities. "What happens though is sector biases tend to have a lot of volatility associated with them," Hunstad said. "2019 saw ...

Integrating ESG essential to infrastructure portfolio: First Sentier Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... consolidation and growing businesses thru platform acquisitions," Mills noted. "We are still seeing growth and opportunities in utilities, district heating, and transportation. What experience has shown us, and has absolutely solidified in the last four ...

Capgemini evaluates state of energy markets, pressures in Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... cornerstone of growing energy consumption, according to Capgemini. Anastasia Klingberg, director and practice lead: Energy and Utilities at Capgemini Australia. Capgemini has published the 21st edition of its annual study, the World Energy Markets Observatory ...

Quantitative managers test ESG data as stand-alone factor in strategies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2019  |  NEWS
... every year have outperformed the carbon laggards... This result held even outside of the carbon-intensive energy and utilities industries. The relative performance and rate of change in emissions matter most for future earnings and financial performance ...

Climate risk necessitates short and long term stress testing: Mercer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019  |  NEWS
... and gas will lose 4.5 p% per year to 2030, peaking at losing 95.1% in 2050 under a 2 degree scenario, while electric utilities stand to lose 4.1% per year rising to a total loss of value of 6 65.7% to 2050. One thematic that provides a potentially positive ...

40% of ASX200 fall short of the carbon reduction requirements: MSCI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... 2-degree warming target, MSCI said. "We looked at a scenario with a conservative view, and then the element around power utilities and relief, and then what would happen under the Paris scenario," said Brendan Baker, MSCI ESG research associate and co-author ...

40% of Chinese Coal Power Plants are Losing Money: Carbon Tracker

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... learning techniques to estimate the activity of each coal plant. The report was written by Matthew Gray, senior analyst for utilities and power at Carbon Tracker. "We have been trying to expand our modelling footprint in the power sector and to do that ...

Evolution towards autonomous vehicles present infrastructure investment: AMP Capital

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... autonomous vehicles and electric vehicles will also bring new opportunities in other sectors of infrastructure, like utilities. "How are we going to come up with a charging infrastructure for electric vehicles, and how will demand for power from the ...

Sustainable returns versus ESG risk analysis: Stewart Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... physical asset. Companies run in an efficient way that manage assets that are beneficial to the real economy, like water utilities. The third category is sustainable goods and services - companies that are well positioned in terms of tailwinds of changing ...