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ASX companies under the spotlight for global investor engagement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... ask companies about how their strategies and targets are articulated through remuneration packages, to assure that incentives align with long term value creation. While BlackRock engages on this on a global basis, this is particularly carried out in ...

Local pick-up a key to reducing emissions in e-commerce: Accenture

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... buyer awareness about the environmental impact of delivery options and more options for greener delivery, government incentives for delivery companies to invest in green fleets, and increased use of data to optimise delivery routes, the potential to ...

C-suite executives cite climate as top risk to growth: EY

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... three to five years, but the nuance of climate policy matters," Nelson said. "Is it a border tax, a trading scheme, an incentives based scheme? Based on those answers, the nature of the policy and the geography and assets they impact will vary significantly ...

Calculating the social cost of carbon: Dimensional Fund Advisors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... thinking about the trade-off of costs and benefits, Chi noted. "One of the biggest costs of cutting GHG is getting market incentives as well as global coordination on this," Chi said. "Part of the solution to cutting GHG emissions would be a carbon tax ...

Assessing climate risk in corporate bond portfolios

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... commitment by 2050, but if they're not actually putting in the efforts into their capex plans and not giving management incentives, they're not achieving their targets." After identifying the companies that are aligned to net zero targets and ...

Aviva Investors puts companies on notice over climate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... businesses, the reframing of corporate strategies, business plans and capital frameworks, adjustments to management incentives and lobbying activities. Baig pointed to the example of engaging with oil and gas companies and finding out how net zero commitments ...

Circular economy a key investment theme: American Century

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... the difference between short-termism versus long-termism approach," he said. "There's also the point about government incentives - we believe that when it comes to spurring an SDG revolution, or a rainbow revolution, it will require a regulatory push ...

The conundrum of ESG in emerging markets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... improvement in management which means that they now favour minority shareholder interests. For example, when management incentives become more aligned with minority shareholders' interests, this can unlock value in the share price. But other considerations ...

Companies expect increase in sales linked to sustainability: HSBC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... is coming from a broad range of stakeholders - consumers, industry regulators, employees, supply chain, government incentives, and shareholder/owner/investor commitments to business sustainability. The accelerated focus on sustainability has been linked ...

Australia vulnerable as countries decarbonise

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... we compared what is the CO2 emission per dollar of GDP, and compared that to, effectively, public spending and green incentives as a percentage of GDP. In Australia's case, there's a huge difference between the two. What that means is that there's ...