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New to market investors seeking ESG information from platforms

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... seeking lower fees, the areas that investors most often seek additional support from their main investing platform are education about strategies for the current environment, according to 27% of respondents, and daily newsletters, according to 20%. "Too ...

Perennial sustainable small cap fund shows double-digit returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... Damian Cottier, portfolio manager. "It better reflects what we're doing. The Better Future Trust looks at areas like education and health, and we're focused on outcomes, so we thought it made sense to make the change now." The Better Futures ...

Scentre Group to increase disclosure for cleaning contracts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... that we're talking about vulnerable workers here. A lot are scared to speak up because they fear retribution. We do education, come out, talk about the issues, wider context, and then we say we're seeing certain things where there's non-compliance ...

Financial institutions at risk from bot attacks: Imperva

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... attacks are seeing a steady, consistent increase year on year. Other sectors are also affected - Imperva identified education, IT and services, marketplaces and government as the other sectors in the top five sectors at risk of bad bot attacks. "The ...

Circular economy a key investment theme: American Century

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... pillars which roll-up to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - environmental protection, healthcare, education, sustainable living and technological progress. Circular economy is embedded in most of those categories. "Take, for example ...

Integrating impact investing in listed equity portfolios

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... than five times to $100 billion over the next five years, and invest in clean energy, housing, health and wellbeing, education and conservation, among other themes. As demonstrated in the RIAA study, impact investing has been concentrated in fixed income ...

Water, water risk everywhere: DWS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... "What are the outcomes. For example, what the calorific improvement of the diet of families and what is the increase in education levels. We can become quite granular in seeking that information and measure the right things. That's what's interesting ...

Stakeholders mull impact of Rio Tinto report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... finance; assist with facilitating First Nations peoples' conversations for the responsible investment sector; facilitate education on First Nations' peoples' rights, empowerment and leadership for the responsible investment sector; collaborate with First ...

Perception of ethics rises off back of COVID response: Governance Institute

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... conduct across society showed a broad consensus on a range of COVID-19 restrictions, and high degrees of trust in health, education and professional membership associations. The overall ethics score for Australian society was +52, a full 19 points higher ...

Credit strategy links financial return to social, environmental impact

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... demonstrate back to investor the change they are driving across renewable energy, low carbon transport, waste, access to education, sustainable agriculture and social and affordable housing." This can require a great deal of scrutiny, examining each ...