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ESG focus on climate change, income inequality: T. Rowe Price

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
Climate change risks will impact virtually all of T. Rowe Price's portfolio holdings to various degrees, leading the global fund manager to factor climate change into analysts' evaluation. Maria Elena Drew, Director of Research, Responsible Investing ...

Four structural challenges for business to navigate post-lockdown: PGIM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... approaches, the continued rise of weightless firms and a shift in real estate usage and footprints as major changes that will impact on businesses. Barbelling indicates two possible responses - an increase in resilient, multi-regional supply chains in ...

U Ethical on resilience, engagement during COVID-19

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... interest while taking into consideration the potential longer term impacts of COVID-19, said Georgina Laird, ethics and impact manager. "We haven't gone on any specific engagement campaigns around COVID-19 at this time, but we feel there will be a period ...

Poor disclosure around labour hire workforce in listed companies: ACCR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
More than 40 percent of ASX100 listed companies in the mining, construction, and commercial cleaning sectors have made no material disclosure about their labour hire and/or contracting workforce in annual reporting documents, according to research from ...

IFM Investors report carbon emission reduction in Australian infrastructure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
IFM investors is reporting a nearly 8% reduction in carbon emissions across its Australian infrastructure portfolio in the 2018/2018 financial year. Chris Newton, head of responsible investing at IFM Investors. The IFM Investors' FY 2019 Australian ...

BIG W joins Action Collaboration Transformation on Living Wages

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... at implementing living wages, Big W said. "These are undoubtedly challenging times for all regions globally, given the impact COVID-19 is having on the way we all live," said David Walker, BIG W managing director. "COVID19's impact on the garment industry ...

Pioneer issuance puts COVID-19 bonds on investment agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... vulnerable customers or jobs generation, then quantifying those impacts would take a different approach. There's no single impact metric for social activities." Entities that have an existing framework for social or sustainability-themed bond issuance ...

Increased integration of ESG in securities lending: State Street Associates

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... securities lending programs are integrating ESG research into borrowing and lending arrangements, but it is unclear what impact short selling has on a company's material ESG performance in the long term, according to research from State Street Associates. ...

APRA creating and recruiting to fill role of head of climate risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... change survey, which, among other things, "highlighted the need to address the climate data deficit, to quantify the likely impact of the physical, transitional and liability risks of climate change and accurately assess and appropriately price these ...

Future Super promotes Kirstin Hunter to co-founder

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
Future Super has promoted Kirstin Hunter to co-founder. Kirstin Hunter, managing director and co-founder, Future Super Hunter joined Future Super in 2017 as chief operations officer and in 2018 she was appointed to the Future Super board as managing ...