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QBE commits minimum $100m to impact investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
... Premiums4Good, social and environmental impact investments potentially have a different asset exposure and profile that may lead to risk or return diversification. "There is potential that they would operate/perform differently," White said. "We do think ...

Alphinity Investment Management launches SDG-linked equity fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
Alphinity Investment Management has launched the Alphinity Sustainable Share Fund (SSF), which "seeks to address the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) agenda in its investment." Bruce Smith, principal and portfolio manager of the Alphininty ...

ASX adds social license to operate, TCFD to corporate governance guide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
... disclose environmental and social sustainability risks, including social license to operate and greater guidance on carbon risk. Louise Davidson, ACSI CEO The ASX Corporate Governance Council is consulting for the updated fourth edition of its Corporate ...

Australian CSR professionals appear unprepared for Modern Slavery Act: Deloitte

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
... surprising than the relatively low level of awareness is the extent to which executive- level CSR people are underestimating the risk of modern slavery in their supply chain," Black said. "Only 17% of exec level CSR people thought it was very likely ...

Responsible investment to become "the new normal": AXA IM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
... to the market to meet investor demand, but Christensen noted "equally compelling, perhaps, is the 'stick' of reputational risk and increased regulation as the public become more attuned to and less tolerant of corporate misconduct." Christensen said ...

Climate-related shareholder resolutions put to Rio Tinto, QBE AGMs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
... climate-related issues, more than 18% of shareholders at Rio Tinto and QBE backed resolutions related to climate change-related risk. Bill Hartnett, head of sustainability, Local Government Super On May 2, Rio Tinto held its Australian AGM and voted ...

CDSB, TCFD launch knowledge hub for organisational implementation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
... TCFD Knowledge Hub is live with over 300 resources submitted by 32 contributors - 80 cover governance, 236 strategy, 152 risk management and 125 metrics & targets with many resources covering more than one topic specifically. Contributors range from ...

Future of mobility requires key action by business, policy makers: SBA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... the next climate change issue - one of the unforeseen, new circumstances that cause challenge, but where identified as a risk can be strategically addressed to create customer loyalty, and drive down cost in the supply chain," Petersen said. "The future ...

Regnan research finds correlation between company performance, conduct culture

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... this is the ethics around it and these are the community expectations.... As directors, you need to know the extent of the risk and the extent of your risk on your reputation. Then you say, if I behave unethically and I drive a culture that does not ...

Ausbil outlines 2017 engagement activities in annual report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... trade-off between financial returns and better labour rights," Carlsson-Sweeny said. "We look at three aspects - earnings risk, earnings sustainability, and management quality. I think a lot of labour rights issues come back to earnings sustainability ...