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Steve Waters, director of Right Property Group, chats about the resilience of the property market in Victoria, where another lockdown is currently in place, as well as Westpac’s latest surprising predictions for property price movements.

RMIT’s senior lecturer of finance, Dr Angel Zhong, reveals the rise of fintok and finfluencers and the dangers social media presents to financial markets.

And lastly, tax and super guru Timothy Munro talks about tax time. He reveals what Aussies need to be mindful of as we head towards 30 June, and why some should look at engaging a professional this tax time.

Have a question for our experts? Get in touch at [email protected] and you might get featured on the next episode.

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Australian insurer getting rid of thermal coal interests

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July 30 2019
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Australian insurer getting rid of thermal coal interests

By Grace Ormsby
July 30 2019

An Australian insurance giant has announced its exit from the thermal coal industry in line with its responsible investment policies.

Australian insurer getting rid of thermal coal interests

By Grace Ormsby

July 30 2019
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An Australian insurance giant has announced its exit from the thermal coal industry in line with its responsible investment policies.

According to a statement from Market Forces, Suncorp is the second Australian insurance company to announce its exit from thermal coal this year, after QBE previously committed to phase out its exposure to thermal coal by 2030.

A Suncorp spokesperson has said that the company “recognises climate change will have a systemic impact across sectors and geographies, presenting a wide range of financial and strategic risks and opportunities for our business, communities, and the wider economy”.

Suncorp has noted its exposure to the fossil fuels industry as “not material”, but did confirm that the organisation “do[es] not directly invest in, finance or underwrite new thermal coal mining extraction projects, or new thermal coal electricity generation, and we will phase out of these exposures by 2025”.

“We will seek to increase exposure to businesses that have a positive environmental impact, including renewable energy generation and technology,” a spokesperson explained.

The figure that the insurance giant cited was that its current exposure to such fossil fuels sits at less than 0.5 per cent in the insurance business and investment portfolio, and a “negligible” proportion of the organisation’s commercial lending portfolio.

Suncorp also doesn’t finance fossil fuel projects as it doesn’t have an institutional bank, the spokesperson noted.

The company said it had implemented a “responsible investment policy” in 2017, which applies a shadow carbon price for the reduction of financial risk that is reviewed annually.

Suncorp also outlined its implementation of a “responsible banking and insurance policy” earlier this year, which seeks to apply the same principles to Suncorp’s underwriting and banking businesses, so that the application of a shadow carbon price is aligned business-wide.

Commenting on the move, Market Forces campaigner Pablo Brait said “Suncorp’s dumping of coal means there is now not one single major Australian insurer willing to provide insurance for new, climate-wrecking thermal coal projects”.

How will the move impact investors?

For Canstar’s group executive of financial services and chief commentator, Steve Mickenbecker, the move by Suncorp is “not surprising”.

“It’s the responsible kind of ethical investment approach that a lot of people are looking for these days, and it’s the way that, I guess, the finance industry can actually contribute to the whole global warming issue”.

Suncorp is joining a good number of investment managers who have said they won’t invest in thermal coal “just as many years ago they said ‘we’re not investing in tobacco’”, Mr Mickenbecker expressed.

The financial services executive emphasised that when an investment manager takes a stance that they are not going to invest in some class of asset, “they are, of course, putting themselves in a position where they might be foregoing lucrative investment opportunities and that means potentially reducing the return that’s available to their investors”.

“However, if you look at certain investments, you [do] look at them and say ‘are they sustainable?’”

“Maybe thermal coal is one of those that you look at and go, well the growth path of thermal coal is in decline, just as the growth path for tobacco was in decline many years ago, and it can be rationalised in terms of investment returns,” Mr Mickenbecker stated.

Noting that the jury is out “as to whether the returns from thermal coal are going to beat returns from other investments”, he said investment managers will be looking to the longer-term sustainability to argue that they won’t.

“So will investors suffer?” the executive posed.

“Maybe short term a little, but longer term, you’d think not.”

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