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Investors considering their options in voting at Westpac AGM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... retire from his role early, and risk and compliance committee chairman Ewen Crouch will depart at the 12 December AGM. The company is facing a second strike against its remuneration report at the AGM, and if 25% of shareholders vote against the report ...

ESG engagement key to small cap value: Perennial Value Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... according to Damian Cottier, portfolio manager. Perennial notes that last year, their nine-person team conducted 1185 ex-100 company visits both nationally and internationally, and Cottier said direct engagement is a particularly useful tool for assessing ...

Sexual harassment a potential investment, financial risk in supply chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... Modern Slavery Act as a means to widen the discussion to other labour and human rights violations. "When we engage with a company at Ausbil, we often use that mantra - if you are looking at modern slavery risk, why not take a broader view," said Mans ...

S&P Global to acquire ESG ratings business from RobecoSAM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... based on customer demand, 2019 also marks the twentieth anniversary of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI). The Company also actively participates in the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and the Accounting for Sustainability ...

Schroders acquires impacting investing firm BlueOrchard

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... expert in innovative blended finance mandates. "BlueOrchard's Singapore office plays a key role in our effort to grow the company's presence in the APAC region," said Pierrick Balmain, head of APAC business development at BlueOrchard. "From this critical ...

ESG standards improving in emerging markets: T. Rowe Price

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... potential to uncover mispriced stocks and make an investment, Surenkok said. In directly engaging with companies, if a company is able to demonstrate that past incidents around ESG themes have not continued, the result can be a conviction call, she added. ...

AMP Capital launches 2030 ESG strategy for real estate business

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... risks. "Then there are intangibles around staff at AMP Capital - having a green product, and being a sustainable property company will attract and retain the best staff. There will be reduced turnover, absenteeism etc. Fourthly, there are our supply ...

Wilderness Society links deforestation to beef production, supply chain risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... companies, to underhand who are the leaders and who are the laggards in addressing risk in the beef supply chain." Only one company, McDonald's, was considered to have a strong deforestation policy (scoring 66% or more). Two companies, OBE Organic and ...

Quantitative managers test ESG data as stand-alone factor in strategies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2019  |  NEWS
... risk signal," McDonald said. "For example, we recently improved our prediction of year-ahead earnings quality by adding company diversity to our quality modelling. This means that our quality assessment of a company is influenced by its ESG features ...

Ausbil joins Investor Declaration on Plastic Pollution

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2019  |  NEWS
... Varcoe said. Plastics and their role in the circular economy is one area where investors are looking for improvements in company performance, Varcoe noted. The circular economy values the full impact of waste, pollution and resources in the overall economic ...