Search Results

Showing 131 - 140 of 715 results for "TAL"

Podcast: Driving a sustainability strategy - Amarjot Bagga

THE GREENER WAY  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
Joining us for this episode is Amarjot Bagga, head of environmental and social impact at Iress, a financial services software provider. Amarjot is an experienced sustainability professional and part of FS Sustainability's inaugural ESG Power50 list ...

Investors consider greenwashing when setting net zero targets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
Businesses and investors are balancing how to set and communicate ambitious net zero targets decarbonisation without greenwashing or greenhushing, and getting that correct is a challenge. Regulators around the world have been cracking down on greenhushing ...

Climate action both risk and opportunity to Australia: Intergenerational Report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
Tackling climate change and transforming Australia's economy to its net zero 2050 target are central priorities in the 2023 Intergenerational Report issued today. In the Intergenerational Report, which provides a forecast of Australia's budget and economy ...

Engaging for real-world decarbonisation: IGCC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 21 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
Collaborative engagement groups like Climate Action 100+ can be important tools for investors and companies to discuss implementation of climate strategies, but investors have to be able to see how a company's commitments lead to real-world decarbonisation. ...

How investors manage risk in a new AI world

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 17 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
In an era marked by the rapid ascent of generative artificial intelligence (AI), investors can potentially reap the rewards from a plethora of efficiency-maximising opportunities to automate core business processes in the companies they invest in. But ...

Fidelity creates chief sustainability role, plus new chairs for IPCC and PRI

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
Fidelity has created a chief sustainability officer position and put Jenn-Hui Tan in the role. This comes as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) announce new chairs. Tan has ...

Are indexes the next target for greenwashing investigations?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
ASIC's latest action against Vanguard for allegations of greenwashing in a bond fund raises the question of whether the market regulator will crack down on index providers and other third-party service providers for greenwashing as well. Last month ...

Podcast: Solving the social housing crisis - Casey Taylor

THE GREENER WAY  |  THURSDAY, 3 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
In this episode of The Greener Way, we're talking investing in affordable housing with Casey Taylor from Conscious Investment Management. By any conceivable measure, affordable housing is a crisis in Australia, with a variety of potential mechanisms ...

Finding opportunities in the energy transition: IML

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
The global energy transition is underway, but there are still very few pure play opportunities available to investors on global stock exchanges, bringing challenges to investors who want to allocate in ways that take into account complex and rapidly ...

Using ChatGPT to assess climate targets: Acadian

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
Acadian Asset Management is utilizing the technology underpinning ChatGPT to predict whether companies are likely to achieve sustainability targets. The Acadian Net Zero Alignment Model integrates large learning models (LLM), the type of AI algorithm ...