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Climate risk, energy transition presenting institutional investors with long-term opportunities

lbailey — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 13:00:47 +0000

Climate risk and energy transition present huge investment opportunities for pension plan sponsors seeking to invest for the long term, said Bertrand Millot, head of sustainability at the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, speaking during a panel session at an event hosted by the United Nations’ principles for responsible investment in Toronto earlier […]

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2024 Risk Management Conference: Long-term returns of sustainable private market assets outweighing short-term risks

lbailey — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 11:56:53 +0000

Sustainable investing needs to take a much more nuanced approach today than it did in the past, according to Edward Vaughan Dixon, head of sustainability and private markets at Aviva Investors, during the Canadian Investment Review’s 2024 Risk Management Conference. Environmental, social and governance strategies should result in a holistic view of the risks behind a […]

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Feds moving ahead with sustainable investing guidelines, but details still scarce

bmcgovern — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 19:00:17 +0000

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said the federal government is moving ahead with guidelines around sustainable investing and corporate climate disclosures, but details on the plans are scarce. The move comes as a wide range of investors, asset managers and environmental groups have been pushing the government to roll out such guidelines, also known as green […]

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UN’s Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance reflecting on five years of impact investing guidelines

bmcgovern — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 15:00:19 +0000

The United Nations’ Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance is marking five years of encouraging institutional investors to implement science-based targets towards curbing greenhouse gas emissions in their portfolios. The network launched with just 12 investment organizations and now counts 88 members across 19 countries. Its members’ collective assets under management have nearly quadrupled since 2019, from […]

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How Canada’s large pension funds are approaching green investment disclosures

bmcgovern — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 12:56:54 +0000

Institutional investors are disclosing the environmental impact of their assets through increasingly sophisticated sustainability reports that use the latest disclosure metrics. While some of Canada’s largest pension funds are at the forefront of how to leverage responsible investment mandates and attempt to enact change through leadership in global organizations, the shortcomings of data reporting standards […]

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Canadian green taxonomy plan could boost institutional investments: PIAC

bmcgovern — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 13:00:42 +0000

The establishment of a green and transition taxonomy by the federal government will help provide the confidence and transparency that investors need to make decisions that are consistent with Canada’s climate objectives and transition pathways, as well as organization-specific climate action plans or net-zero commitments, said the Pension Investment Association of Canada. In an open letter, […]

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Canada’s missing navigation tool in the push to lower emissions

bmcgovern — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 19:00:10 +0000

It would be possible to get around a city if there were no agreed-upon street names, but it would take longer, people would get lost and international travellers might just give the place a pass. The same could be said of investors trying to navigate where to put the many trillions of dollars that are […]

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2024 Global Investment Conference: Comparing clean energy landscapes across North America and Europe

lbailey — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 11:57:39 +0000

To reach 2050 net-zero targets, investment volume in U.S. and European clean power markets has to be scaled on an annualized basis from now until 2030, said Daniel Sausmikat, partner of origination and execution at InfraRed Capital Partners, during the Canadian Investment Review‘s 2024 Global Investment Conference held in April. However, progress isn’t going to […]

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Expert panel: How transition investments can help institutional investors reach net zero

bmcgovern — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 13:00:48 +0000

Driven by the net-zero pledge towards green investments, institutional investors are finding themselves uncomfortably wedged between a rock and a hard place. If they invest exclusively in green assets and earn lower returns than the broader stock market benchmark, as was the case in 2023 for environmental, social and governance funds, they’re criticized for underperforming. […]

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CPPIB generates net return of 8% as of Q1 2024, net assets increase to $632.3BN

lbailey — Thu, 23 May 2024 15:00:36 +0000

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board earned an eight per cent return last year but significantly underperformed the 19.9 per cent return of its reference portfolio. The lower return can be explained in part by higher volatility in the stock-focused benchmark portfolio compared with the diversified, long-term return focus for the pension fund, says John Graham, the […]

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