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Responsible investment AUM grows, but disclosure lags: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... the Australian Bureau of Statistics. In additional to growing in terms of AUM, the industry is also deepening its best practice, according to Simon O'Connor, RIAA CEO. "We're at a point where responsible investing is becoming a major part of ...

MBS launches Centre for Sustainability and Business

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
Melbourne Business School (MBS) has launched a new Centre for Sustainability and Business, with the intention of improving social and financial outcomes by helping leaders put environmental sustainability at the heart of their organisation. Professor ...

Aurecon directors appointed to FIDIC Sustainable Development Committee

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... Change - Asia Stephanie Groen will join as a committee member. The new committee will "advocate, guide and monitor best practice in sustainable development across the global engineering and construction industry, and will advise the FIDIC board on all ...

Ex-Rosenberg Equities executives launch Radiant ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... reporting and engagement on material ESG issues, and thematic consultation on improving diversity and inclusion best practice. "In some ways, there are more women and minority led asset management businesses than you'd think. But 90% manage less than ...

First Sentier Investors launch Modern Slavery Toolkit

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... human rights, we've brought together various parts of our investment team so that we can establish what we think best practice looks like and develop tools for those investment teams to take into their own investment process," Turner said. "We asked ...

Super funds lag on disclosing proxy voting record: ACCR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... the proxy voting record of those fund managers. Voting disclosures should be easily accessible on fund websites. Best practice disclosure is made through an online portal (typically facilitated by proxy advisers), which can also enable timely disclosure. ...

Chronos Sustainability hires Ian Woods for strategic Australian/NZ role

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... partners and stakeholders and will enable us to continue to drive progress, raise industry standards, and inform global best practice in sustainable investment." Chronos Sustainability was founded in 2017 "with the objective of delivering transformative ...

Government appoints Modern Slavery Expert Advisory Group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... working with the permanent and public members of the group to support the implementation of the Act and encourage best practice from Australian businesses." Wood announced the Australian government will extend the deadline for entities due to lodge statements ...

Pivot to virtual AGMs, communication offer opportunities: Redback Connect

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... Companies have taken on board learnings that have come with conducting virtual or hybrid meetings and that will lead to best practice development, Matheson said. "What's important from our point of view is that those learnings are gathered up and taken ...

JANA providing services to retail sector, eyes retail ESG services

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... investment committee in the retail space is relatively nascent," Karagianis said. "I think there has been certainly best practice in large licensees having investment committees, and formal processes in terms of investment constraints, etc., that hasn't ...