Sentences with phrase «asset risk»

Sadly, the idea that a central bank should not take asset risks is out the window.

Be wary when investing in financial companies, and avoid novel asset risks, credit risk, and excess leverage.

The reality is that the financial world is dynamic with changing relative asset risks and changing personal needs over time.

The company had asset risks as well as liability risks.

There's an argument to be made that having some diversification helps you, because you don't have single asset risk.

Finally, estimate the value of all the personal assets you risk losing were someone to file and win a liability lawsuit against you.

Not only do these firms take asset risks, they are taking more risks than any large firm that I can find.

New carbon asset risk resolutions are asking companies if they are prepared to succeed in an increasingly carbon - constrained world, amid fears of stranded carbon assets and the potential of a carbon bubble.

New investment decisions favor renewables because of their commercial merit, their lower externalities, the diversity of supply they bring to the grid, and as a way to avoid stranded asset risks of the sort that plagues thermal power plants which, once built, generally have a 40 -50-year lifespan.

Stranded asset risk around the world will double from US$ 10 to $ 20 trillion by mid-century if governments delay implementation of the Paris agreement, the...

We're going to extract every last drop and burn every last drop,»» said Andy Behar, president of California - based As You Sow, an advocacy group and co-sponsor of the carbon asset risk resolution.

Though not well understood at the time, this was the «death throes» of the «bad old days» in the life insurance industry for taking too much asset risk.

Citywire's annual wealth performance awards are based on performance reporting from Asset Risk Consultants» (ARC) respected analysis.

The second study, «Carbon Asset Risk», is authored by the World Resources Network and the UNEP FI, a joint initiative of the United Nations and representatives of the international finance industry.

Our first Asset Risk Consultants (ARC) comparison went well; we were pleased to see that we outperformed across all relevant risk profiles, despite taking less risk than the comparable ARC categories.

They take asset risks everywhere.

The study notes that two big advantages of DB plans are their ability to pool longevity risk and to pool asset risk.

First, identify carbon asset risks across portfolios.

«Carbon Tracker has done so much to bring climate change into mainstream investor thinking and make financial markets aware of stranded asset risk in the fossil fuel industry.

Meanwhile, IRENA estimates that the overall stranded asset risk doubles to more than $ 20tn if rapid decarbonisation of the energy sector is delayed to 2030 and fossil fuel investments continue to rise.

Miami has one of the highest capital assets risk profiles of any city in the world, due to the density of its population and concentration of wealth near its coastline.

His mandate is to develop the organization's capabilities in North America, building awareness and understanding of carbon and stranded asset risk amongst institutional investors and broadening the distribution and usage of Carbon Tracker's proprietary research.

Major oil and gas companies are seeing resolutions filed at AGMs on carbon asset risk where majority of shareholders are calling for business analysis of a 2 ˚C scenario.

One more thing about BRK's insurance subsidiaries — in general, because they have so much asset risk, they don't write as much insurance as other companies of their size would.

Moreover, while a focus on reporting of companies» carbon emissions is important, we suggest that improving reporting of and transparency around carbon asset risk — an on - going focus of the Bank of England — should be a priority for the Government.

The study updates analysis in Carbon Tracker's reports 2 Degrees of Separation (June, 2017) and The $ 2 Trillion Stranded Assets Danger Zone (2015), which used a 2C scenario to analyse stranded asset risk.

«Statistics from this study, and others, show an alarming trend that asset risk is no longer being calculated correctly.

excerpt: «After being pestered for years by shareholder activists, Exxon has agreed to produce a public document on its «carbon asset risk.»

As it was, the effort to do so made them take on asset risks that killed many companies, and should have killed many, many more, had economic policy been handled properly.

This could change amid increasing focus on fossil fuel company scenarios as investors engage more around carbon asset risk and future capital investment plans (See also our partners Ceres, IIGCC, LAPFF, CIG, ShareAction and Client Earth on Carbon Asset Risk and «Aiming for A»).

Since the publication of the Blueprint several fossil fuel companies have enhanced their discussions of carbon asset risks, stranded assets, and further considered the implications of low - carbon scenarios.

This paper, first presented at the 1st Global Stranded Assets Conference, hosted by the Smith School in Oxford September 2015, looks at developments over the past two years around the concepts of carbon asset risk, stranded assets and wasted capital in relation to the fossil fuel industry.

CalPERS holds about $ 400 million worth of shares in palm oil plantation companies — investments which bring serious material risks including climate risk, land - rights risk, reputational risk, and stranded assets risks.

With over two - thirds of investors declaring they are closely monitoring stranded asset risk — as identified in a recent EY survey — the importance of climate disclosures is clearly set to grow.

«Given the amount of money you're spending on high - cost, high carbon projects... given your demand restraints due to carbon asset risks, we think a more prudent use of capital is to return more money to shareholders through dividends and share buybacks.»

«These will not reopen whatever anything President Trump does,» explains BNEF, «nor do we see much appetite among investors for ploughing money into U.S. coal extraction — stranded asset risk will trump rhetoric.»