A group of financial institutions, including the OPSEU Pension Trust, is launching a climate-focused pilot project that will map potential future climate impacts on investment performance. The project aims to integrate quantified risks associated with climate change into standard, forward-looking financial scenarios that drive strategic investment decision-making, according to a press release. The investors involved will use […]
While investing sustainably is still a relatively minor factor in institutional investment decisions, global investors expect it to continue to grow in importance, according to new research by Schroders. “Investors clearly recognize that investing sustainably is going to be more and more important going forward, but this approach is yet to sit at the heart of their […]
The National Pension Hub is awarding funding to three research projects, focusing on themes like portfolio construction and plan design. The hub, which the Global Risk Institute in Financial Services created in October 2017, is a Canadian centre for pension knowledge and research. One research project, which will be led by Stephen Bonnar, a post-doctoral fellow, and Douglas […]
The OPSEU Pension Trust is setting out a climate change action plan, including eight areas of focus that aim to make the pension fund more resilient and agile in taking on the problem. “Climate change is one of the most significant challenges facing us today,” said Hugh O’Reilly, president and chief executive officer of OPTrust, in a […]
Whether the aim is to reduce material risk, align pension investments with the organization’s overall philosophies or address a moral imperative, no pension fund wants to go through the trouble of diving in only to find its assets aren’t as green as it thought. With no standardized metric in existence, the word “green” could have […]
Since the British Columbia Investment Management Corp. is the fourth largest pension fund manager in Canada, it’s important to consider whether it’s investing its resources in a way that aligns with the country’s commitment to the Paris Agreement, according to a new report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. BCI isn’t investing with the goals […]
Some 84 per cent of global institutional investors said they’re pursuing or considering pursuing the integration of environmental, social and governance factors into their investment processes, according to a survey by the Morgan Stanley Institute for Sustainable Investing and Morgan Stanley Investment Management Inc. The survey, which polled 118 global public and corporate pension plans, endowments, foundations, sovereign […]
Global institutional investors’ assets under management rose 7.3 per cent in 2017 to US$36.2 trillion, the largest increase in five years, according to the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum. The London, England, and Singapore-based independent think-tank’s report tracks 750 global public pension, sovereign funds and central banks, holding assets equivalent to 45 per cent of the […]
On a global scale, regulatory rumblings are growing louder on single-use plastics, highlighting potential risks and opportunities within the plastics supply chain for institutional investors to consider, according to a recent report by Schroder Investment Management Ltd. As plastics move from being an “ecological concern to economic driver,” the report seeks to identify some of the […]
As part of its plan to address environmental, social and governance factors, the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec has released its first stewardship investing report. The report outlined the Caisse’s strategic actions on key issues like climate change, corporate governance, women in business and international taxation. “We’ve been integrating ESG factors into our investment processes for […]