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Pension funds to get tougher on ESG mandates

Press review Investment News New Zealand "The EDHEC Climate Risk Institute report found consultants routinely underestimate the financial impact of climate change even at extreme temperature rises with a “puzzling degree of accuracy”. If the investment consultancy sector has been soft on climate in exact measures down to the “hundredth of percentage point”, doom-centric forecasts at the other end of the scale are equally unreliable for financial modelling, the paper says. Instead, pension funds (and other asset allocators) would be better-served by “a clear description of the huge degree of uncertainty surrounding the impact of climate change on asset returns. (...) 2023