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GCNA awarded federal grant to provide training on modern slavery

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... including company-run grievance mechanisms," GCNA said. Guidance will be provided through a series of publications and events. "We are committed to doing what we can to ensure the private sector responds to the risks of modern slavery," said Vanessa ...

Fundamental portfolio managers analyse ESG performance of funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... way we position our portfolio." Fundamental portfolio managers caution that certain amounts of outperformance stem from events pre-dating the widespread response to coronavirus, and that it can be difficult to establish the precise degree to which non-correlated ...

Australia bears sovereign risk with fossil fuel dependence: Beyond Ratings

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... meet a 2 degree alignment, physical risk, which reflects the exposure to risks such as sea-level rises and extreme weather events; and resiliency, which measures a country's preparedness and actions to cope with its level of climate related risk exposure," ...

Governance Institute releases climate change risk disclosure guide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... have clarity on the way forward." The starting point for firms is to understand the scope of potential risks, Motto said. "Events that are happening here and now are certainly materialising those risks for organisations, in terms of climate change risk," ...

Comment: hindsight is 2020

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... will happen to investments if sea levels rise by a metre or more, what will happen if there are more catastrophic weather events, what will happen if there are more claims for the insurance policies? The list of risk questions goes on. What is sometimes ...

Small, mid-caps list governance, social as top ESG concerns: Perennial

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... financial regulator putting on restrictions on remuneration. It will be interesting to see the shift this year given the events of the last 12 months." The first year of reporting on modern slavery exposures as part of the Modern Slavery Act may also ...

BetaShares ethical ETFs surpass $1 billion funds under management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... particular over those three months. I don't believe that it is a coincidence that this has happened during the bushfire events. The growth rate for these funds have been faster than any other BetaShares ETF over this period." ETHI was launched in January ...

Calculating the shorter, longer-term cost of bushfire

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... these risks. "As global temps rise, you would see particularly southern Australia have less rain, with more extreme weather events, floods, storms, droughts," Oliver said. A natural outworking of more extreme droughts gives us the situation where we ...

Investing in insurance linked securities, integrating climate risk: Amundi

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... "It's not something that happens over night, but it's a long term trend. We don't want to have any overreactions to any events in any particular year." Liu purchases ILS with a select group of counterparties, and integrates information from Amundi's ...

Investors considering their options in voting at Westpac AGM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... that ASA was set to have a meeting earlier this week with Westpac, but the meeting was postponed due to quickly moving events. "At the present time, we're just in correspondence essentially with Westpac over the date we're having a meeting," she said. ...