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Diversity, human rights, climate change lead agenda: ASI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... also the stewardship side. It also certainly helps our analysts on their engagement plan for companies around climate change risk and also on the proxy voting part as well."

Industry fund sets bar higher with Net Zero timing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... over the next period." NGS Super has previously spoken with its external managers about how they mitigate climate change risk, and will continue to do so in aligning their manager line-up with the 2030 carbon neutral target. That will include asking ...

Social issues come to fore in 2020: Ausbil

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... international relevance and concern." Ausbil identified modern slavery, and the way in which COVID-19 materially increased the risk of labour exploitation and how workers across global supply chains became increasingly vulnerable as one area of engagement ...

EISS Super takes on ESG risk analytics with State Street

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
EISS Super has implemented State Street's environmental, social and governance (ESG) Risk Analytics Solution. State Street is providing EISS Super customised ESG performance and risk management around carbon emissions data, from both the top down and ...

Investors seek renewable energy infrastructure: bfinance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... asset managers, as compared to approximately 50 in 2019. Strategies have evolved to include greater exposure to development risk, use of less conventional technologies, investing in new geographies and greater specialisation. bfinance also points to ...

Real estate managers carry out decarbonisation strategies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... strategy at Aware Super," said Damien Webb, Aware Super head of income and real assets. "We are focused on delivering strong risk adjusted returns while also leaving a positive footprint in the environment and our community. "In 2020 we announced our ...

Measuring the gap between ASX board ethics, exec performance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... the executives examined by the Royal Commission biased short term financial performance over management of non-financial risk "The general focus here is on boards and this is an issue for a board of directors, it has to be driven by the board and the ...

Serving up meat's sustainability risks, opportunities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... on the slaughtering line and the changing rooms and other places where they meet each other. "These elements have had high risk. Companies over time have responded better, invested in more PPE, changed the layout of slaughterhouses, but to a certain ...

Economist urges drastic action on climate change policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... having a strong federal policy on climate change and a pathway to move to zero carbon emissions by 2050 brings continued risk to Australia's economic growth long term, according to the head of one the leading economic think tanks. Danielle Wood, CEO ...

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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
Australia's C-suite executives worry more about climate change as the top risk to growth, beating out COVID-19, according to EY. That puts Australian executives in a unique position over other global executives, which still view the pandemic as ...