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Fixing Australia's complicated carbon market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... criteria that should be applied to international offsets under the government's Climate Active carbon neutral certification program, the Indo-Pacific Carbon Offsets Scheme, and for other uses, the CCA said. Herd pointed to four key considerations ...

Schroders' sustainable multi-asset fund receives RIAA certification

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2022  |  NEWS
Schroders has received certification from the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) for its newly renamed Sustainable Growth fund. The Schroder Sustainable Growth Fund is Schroders' first sustainable multi-asset strategy available in ...

CBA expands ESG term deposit to foreign currencies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2022  |  NEWS
... certified by the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA), under the auspices of its responsible investment certification program. "We had a pool of sustainability-linked loans from the institutional banking side that was seeing a lot of ...

Fox and Hare certified as B Corp

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
... that we're heading in the right direction and have guidance," Hare said. "That's something I took out of the B Corp certification that I didn't foresee - they made us really open our minds to areas that we just hadn't considered. "... It enabled us to ...

Heritage Bank hires first ESG and sustainability manager

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
... delivery of improved governance and reporting of Heritage's ESG performance and projects such as carbon neutral certification. Masci has more than 15 years' experience across environmental management, corporate sustainability and ESG and comes to Heritage ...

US SEC proposes new disclosure for ESG funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2022  |  NEWS
... allocate their capital efficiently and meet their needs." Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) head of certification and ratings Cassandra Williams said that RIAA welcomes the proposal by the US and notes that many of the proposed stipulations ...

RIAA certifies two Real Asset Management funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2022  |  NEWS
... Income Fund and RAM Diversified Fixed Income and Credit SMA have been approved under RIAA's Responsible Investment Certification, meaning that they adhere to operational and disclosures practices in line with responsible investment practices. "Good governance ...

Australians expect ethical investing: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2022  |  NEWS
... Bank Limited. "It takes a while to build up a credible, authentic platform," Millais said. "That's what RIAA certification and B Corp certification means. The challenge for us now is looking at more consumers joining. "Our proposition isn't to ...

Property manager buys nearly 100,000 carbon credits for offsetting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2021  |  NEWS
... lettable area, covered by the 97,000 ACCUs, which is a 30% reduction of absolute emissions from their first year of certification. ISPT reduced Scope 1, 2 and some Scope 3 emissions by 30% on its directly owned and operated properties - from 73,000 tonnes ...

Failing to manage ESG a severe risk to business: KPMG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 DEC 2021  |  NEWS
Failing to manage material ESG issues effectively will constitute a business failure by 2030, according to research from KPMG Australia. Increasing regulation and expectations from employees, customers and investors means businesses will have to transform ...