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Women near parity in 2021 board appointments: AICD

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... Limited and Kogan.com Ltd. However, AICD noted that Kogan.Com have announced the appointment of Janine Allis commencing 1 April 2021. " As we head into 2021 the appointment rate for women on boards is nearing parity," said Louise Petschler, AICD general ...

Ethical fund manager sets ambitious FUM target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... noted that feedback from advisers led Australian Ethical to launch its first Separately Managed Account (SMA) portfolio in April 2020 which has since seen returns of 41.1% to 31 December 2020. The SMA is now available on Hub24 and Praemium, according ...

Pendal to launch sustainable water, waste strategy, hire two

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... will join Regnan as senior fund manager and Sharma will join as fund manager. They are expected to start with Regnan in April, with the investment strategy to be launched in the UK and Europe in the second half of calendar 2021. The team joins from Fidelity ...

Scentre Group to increase disclosure for cleaning contracts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... manages safe workloads for cleaning staff, after facing the possibility of a shareholder resolution on the topic at its April AGM. The new reporting will form part of Scentre Group's Responsible Business Report and Modern Slavery Statement which ...

Rio leadership overhaul aimed at restoring trust, license to operate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... people officer, will leave. James Martin, currently a partner at Egon Zehnder, will join Rio Tinto as chief people officer in April. Brynn O'Brien, executive director, Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility, called for deep cultural change ...

Capital raisings, remuneration impact proxy vote: Dimensional

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... saw a lot of pushback against them." Following the ASX's introduction of temporary emergency capital raising relief in April due to the pandemic, more than $33 billion has been raised through 72 capital raisings, mostly as placements, and at a median ...

Social issues and climate dominate engagement: SSGA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... COVID-19 was high on the agenda, said Benjamin Colton, global co-head of asset stewardship at SSGA. "We wrote a letter in early April to companies to express that as long term shareholders we stood behind them as they navigated the existential threat ...

Government reforms aim for increased super transparency

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... announced that the long-deferred deadline for the first reporting date on PHD was to be 31 December of this year. However, in April ASIC said it would defer the launch again due to the impacts of COVID-19. A spokesperson for ASIC told FS Sustainability ...

Ban on waste export presents risks, opportunities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... Investment Management has identified plastic waste as an area of risk, with Mans Carlsson-Sweeny telling FS Sustainability in April that if a business model relies on underpriced pollution or weak regulation of waste, it has implications for long term ...

Majority of super funds not disclosing portfolio holdings: Rainmaker

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... announced that the long-deferred deadline for the first reporting date on PHD was to be 31 December of this year. However, in April ASIC said it would defer the launch again due to the impacts of COVID-19, although it has not yet clarified when that ...