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Five reasons investors should adopt an active versus passive ESG approach

JOEL CONNELL  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
The importance of integrating ESG related risks and opportunities into investment decisions has become undeniable. The ability for companies to generate superior shareholder returns is increasingly intertwined with ESG and sustainability factors. Consumers ...

Oliver Wyman appoints ex-Westpac exec as special adviser

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
... transformation and technology, finance and risk, crisis management, investor and regulatory relations and navigating complexity in high profile and regulated industries. She has worked as CEO of Westpac Institutional Bank, chair of Westpac Asia's ...

ASX300 action on modern slavery "lagging"

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 7 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
... countries with modern slavery risks. The review found that 41% of ASX300 companies have operations in countries considered high-risk for modern slavery, "yet only 4% of S&P/ASX 300 companies described their risk as high in their statements, as reviewed ...

Leading Harvest to bring ag sustainability standard to Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
Warakirri Asset Management and Kilter Rural will take part in a pilot program that will bring an agriculture and food production sustainability assurance program to Australia. Leading Harvest is a non-profit that has developed the Farmland Management ...

Super funds react to Rio report into bullying, sexism, racism

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
... common across a number of areas, including indications that people working in a country different to their birth experienced high rates of racism, and that 39.8% of men and 31.8% of women who identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander in Australia ...

HESTA's former head of impact launches consultancy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
... represented properly in everything you do," she said. "For example, if you look at Rio - and we were dealing with them at quite a high level in an active ownership fashion, while we were engaging with executives and board members there, their employees ...

Robeco outlines four themes for 2022 engagement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
... equality and inclusion'; and 'Nature Action 100'. In 2020, Robeco launched a focused engagement program with 13 high carbon-emitting companies in which they are shareholders. Robeco ranked the companies on a traffic light system of red, amber ...

Australian Ethical launches high conviction ETF

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 1 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
... Australian Ethical has become the latest fund manager to foray into exchange traded products, launching an active ethical ETF. The High Conviction Fund ETF (ticker: AEAE) is an actively managed portfolio of 20 to 35 companies primarily drawn from the ...

Plato Investment Management launches net zero hedge fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2022  |  NEWS
... calculation methodology recommended by the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). The strategy will short high carbon emitting listed companies and take long positions in companies with better-than-average carbon footprints, and ...

Magnis appoints Global Impact Initiative founder to board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2022  |  NEWS
... distribution and leadership. Magnis noted that GII is recognised as a UN LEAD Company, which means it is recognised as having "high levels of engagement as a participant of the United Nations Global Compact," according to the UN Global Compact. GII recently ...