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Human capital management a signal of overall sustainability: Lazard

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... contributing to these relationships? This is a piece that gets us to a much deeper level of understanding their sustainability." COVID-19 may also end up assisting in cutting through greenwash in that companies' responses may show up which are taking ...

State Street Global Advisors launch Climate ESG International Equity Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... Global Advisors' ESG scoring system, R-Factor. R-Factor integrates multiple data sources and is built utilising the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) materiality framework. The fund manager uses SASB's Materiality Map to generate a unique ...

Chronos Sustainability hires Ian Woods for strategic Australian/NZ role

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
Specialist sustainability advisory firm Chronos Sustainability has announced a strategic association with climate change and responsible investment veteran Ian Woods. Ian Woods, climate change and sustainable investment specialist, Chronos Sustainability ...

Can proposed EU recovery plan prove a sustainable model for Australia?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... focus on the balance sheet. "This will likely remain for some time in a post-coronavirus world, where the value of sustainability has also received a significant boost," he said. "Issuers will be under scrutiny not only on their approach to dealing with ...

Aviva Investors identifies megatrends representing market failures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... consequences." The third PRI principle is around disclosure, Waygood noted. "We have integrated this kind of disclosure of sustainability issues into our AGM voting policy since 2001," he said. "This includes issues challenging companies to publish data ...

Accelerating digitalisation an investment opportunity: Janus Henderson

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... development of a sustainable global economy," Seery noted. "We see four key elements to an investment approach based on sustainability. Often there are conflicts between environmental and social sustainability and our approach seeks to address this by ...

First State Super joins Tobacco Free Finance Pledge Stamp

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... encouraged other finance leaders to follow suit. "The Pledge Stamp demonstrates leadership, communicates commitment to sustainability and amplifies the tobacco-free finance movement," King said. "Moving to tobacco-free finance is firmly established as ...

Government appoints Modern Slavery Expert Advisory Group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... Carlsson-Sweeny, head of environmental, social and governance research, Ausbil Investment Management, Kate Baker, senior sustainability specialist, Telstra, Sebastian Conley, sourcing operations manager, Country Road Group and David Jones, Katie Knaggs ...

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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... Price is advocating aligning ESG disclosure with global frameworks that emphasise financial materiality, namely the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosure (TCFD). "The value of pressing ...

U Ethical on resilience, engagement during COVID-19

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... Georgina Laird, Jon Fernie, U Ethical "Sustainable strategies have held up pretty well, whether it's ethical, ESG or sustainability strategies, but we're talking about a short time period, and we're still an investor focused on long term returns," said ...