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Aviva Investors creates global head of ESG role

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... Aviva Investors' executive team to lead and coordinate ESG strategy, delivery and commercialisation across the global business, including the Asia Pacific. Baig will set firm-wide ESG strategy, "bringing together the different ESG-focused teams working ...

Juicing up gender equity with Orange Bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... Marekera noted that the firm considers empowerment through six lenses - women as entrepreneurs, women as leaders with business, women as employees, which covers finding businesses where policies empower women's participation in the workforce. Further ...

Brambles launches Australian-first circular economy green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... Logistics company Brambles has launched its first green bond, with a €500 million issuance linked to the company's circular business and sustainability performance. This is the first green bond issued by an Australian company that is linked to circular ...

Embedding mental health wellbeing into company culture

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... action. The report recommends taking a "systems-level approach by making mental health and wellbeing fundamental to the business, integrating it into the culture, policies, business strategy and structures at all levels," taking a human-centrered approach ...

Leading Harvest launches Australian ag sustainability standard

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... capital level that is sector-agnostic," he said. "At the same time, it's something that can take the complexity at the business level and translate it into the reporting schemes that are being used, which makes it like a universal adaptor." Image ...

Women-led founders, climate tech grow VC impact sector

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... Leap saw a growth in the number of potential investments in 2022. Giant Leap defines impact startup as an early stage business that is high-growth, technology-enabled and has "impact embedded in its business model so that every dollar of revenue generated ...

Aviva Investors creates head of climate policy role

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
Aviva Investors has created a new role of head of climate policy, responsible for developing the global fund manager's macro stewardship programme. Aviva Investors has hired Nick Molho as the new head of climate policy. He joins in June and will report ...

Australian Ethical divests from Lendlease over koala concerns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... impacts rather than biodiversity. "As the rest of the market comes into focus into biodiversity, how does Lendlease's business stand up?" Australian Ethical are assessing those biodiversity risks as pertains to other developers it may hold in its portfolios. ...

Cultivating culture

ANDREW DALE  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
Culture is how an organisation thinks, acts, and interacts. A good corporate culture drives superior business performance - it motivates and retains the most talented employees who ensure sustained strategy execution. It also promotes equality in the ...

Resource-efficient companies more resilient: Impax AM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... Renewable energy provides not are just clean power but energy security." Longer term, Impax sees companies with innovative business models supported by secular drivers as thriving irrespective of market direction, and cited the healthcare sector as one ...