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Oliver Wyman appoints ex-Westpac exec as special adviser

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
... institutions, as well as experience in the start-up community, citing her expertise in strategy and leadership, people and culture, transformation and technology, finance and risk, crisis management, investor and regulatory relations and navigating complexity ...

Super funds react to Rio report into bullying, sexism, racism

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
Investors are reacting with deep concern to the findings of an external review of Rio Tinto's workplace culture which revealed "disturbing findings of bullying, sexual harassment, racism and other forms of discrimination." The report found bullying ...

American Century outlines 2022 sustainability priorities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
... massive." American Century is engaging with companies on how they compensate employees, to gauge the health of corporate culture, and establish the demographics of workplace turnover by gender and ethnicity as well as understand how companies are addressing ...

Deep engagement to follow SSGA CEO letter to directors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 20 JAN 2022  |  NEWS
... diversity on boards and in workforces. Diversity on boards is an indicator of overall human capital management and corporate culture considerations such as employee satisfaction, said SSGA global head of asset stewardship- voting and engagement Benjamin ...

Portfolio holdings disclosure regulations come into effect

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 13 JAN 2022  |  NEWS
... national superannuation policy, but entity-level disclosure of Australia's super funds is in the main poor due to the culture of super funds and investment managers not being very open regarding what they actually invest in," noted Alex Dunnin, executive ...

Board of the future to face more ESG issues: Governance Institute

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
... understand non-financial risk and what it means for the organisation." Vamos also stressed that boards need oversight of culture, be able to interrogate cultural levels and understand conduct culture. Part of this process will be upskilling and further ...

ESG a thematic tailwind for microcap stocks: Yarra Capital

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
... bringing more female participants into the workforce. "When it comes down to it, how companies respond is a big part of their culture. These things are as important as, tell me about your business model, how are you going to win those customers."

HESTA, Lendlease back First Nations initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 OCT 2021  |  NEWS
... period - we've seen that the legislation isn't good enough, or else there wouldn't be this much damage to history and culture as what happened at Juukan Gorge." RIAA is launching an industry-developed Investor Toolkit on Indigenous Peoples' Rights and ...

Australian companies under "extreme pressure" over ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
Australian companies are under "extreme" pressure to improve ESG practices and corporate culture, integrate technology and strengthen reputations in the next 12 months, according to a survey from FTI Consulting. The FTI Consulting 2021 Resilience Barometer ...

Boards have responsibility to manage ethics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... agenda. "Boards are not a homogenous group," Pigrum said. "Every board has its own eccentricities, its own particular culture and its own way of making decisions and own level of comfort around disagreement and dissent around the table. The point is ...