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Phoenix estimates 20% of equity and credit assets exposed to high transition risks

Some 20% of Phoenix's listed equity and credit portfolios are exposed to sectors at high risk in the transition to a net-zero economy, such as energy, utilities, industrials and materials.

Aviva completes divestment of £2.5bn in fossil fuel companies

Aviva has divested almost all its £2.5 billion ($3 billion) exposure to fossil fuel companies on its "Stoplist" of firms with weak ambitions to reduce their climate impact.

Measuring the financial consequences of climate transition

Joseph Noss looks at why backward-looking emissions reporting provides no guarantee of reducing exposure to transition risk

Zurich excludes five fossil-fuel companies with non-credible transition plans

Zurich has excluded five companies from its investment and underwriting activities as it no longer considered their "progress against transition plans to be credible".

'Capex must be a focus of energy transition engagement', investors told

Asset managers grappling with the energy transition have been urged to prioritise engaging on companies' capital expenditure (capex) plans.

How Canada laid the foundations for its transition taxonomy

A project to develop a list of transition activities is set to grow, Barbara Zvan and Jonathan Arnold tell Michael Hurley

S&P launches environmental commodities index

Federated Hermes 'will use its say-on-climate votes'

Federated Hermes' EOS stewardship platform has defended say-on-climate votes, after an asset manager said it would abstain from taking part over concerns they might limit investors' ability to challenge strategies in the future.

Explainer: The Transition Pathway Initiative

The TPI has emerged as a key investor tool for assessing transition risk, write Rory Sullivan and Valentin Jahn

Extreme weather is harming real estate investments