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Financial services industry addressing leadership in uncertain times: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... to lead the responses to a range of broad challenges, including climate change and COVID-19. Kirstin Hunter, managing director, Future Super The Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) held a virtual conference session covering leadership ...

GCNA awarded federal grant to provide training on modern slavery

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... environment with the COVID-19 pandemic placing unprecedented pressure on supply chains, said Kylie Porter, GCNA executive director. "Companies need to be vigilant to protect their workers and the credibility of their operations from modern slavery risks ...

RIAA awards Responsible Investment Certification to Mirova fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... advantages and ability to offset risk whilst demonstrating a solid financial structure, said Louise Watson, managing director and head of distribution for Natixis in Australia. "Mirova is a long-term, sustainable investor focused on major societal transitions ...

ASEAN green bond issuance reaches US$7.8bn: Climate Bond Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... demonstrates that the region is responding to issues linked to environmental degradation," said Jonathan Drew, managing director, Sustainable Finance, HSBC Asia Pacific. "However, the findings also reveal the disparity between nations and the enormous ...

Questions raised over governance implications of share buyback schemes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... corporate tax rate in 2017, there was a jump in the rate of corporate share buy-backs in the US, said Ric Marshall, executive director at MSCI ESG Research. MSCI ESG Research is currently re-examining the issue of buyback, Marshall said. "We saw a big ...

Coronavirus forcing companies to virtual AGMs, full proxy voting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... participate. "These are extraordinary times and extraordinary measures are needed," noted Angus Armour, the CEO and managing director of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD). "The pragmatic measures announced by ASIC today will provide ...

ANZ companies report board level climate oversight, more needed: CDP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... reporting to CDP have board-level oversight on climate-related issues, but more action is needed, CDP said. Pratima Divgi, director of Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand at CDP CDP has issued Towards Climate-Resilient Growth: Asia Pacific's ...

UN GCNA appoints Pru Bennett to board of directors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... (GCNA) has appointed corporate governance expert Pru Bennett to its board of directors. Kylie Porter, GCNA executive director Bennett is a former managing director of Blackrock with more than 20 years' experience in corporate governance in the Asia-Pacific ...

Sustainability faces greatest test in response to coronavirus

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... brought home the risks posed by the globalisation of supply chains over recent decades," said Kylie Porter, executive director of the Global Compact Network Australia (GCNA). "While that globalisation has brought many benefits to business, there is a ...

ESG indices, products faring relatively better in coronavirus response

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... Arabia and Russia, the ETFs were already insulated from market volatility in that sector, said Alex Vynokur, managing director, BetaShares. "The rate of adoption of ethical investing has been growing very fast and as you know, the strategies that BetaShares ...