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ESG funds are cheaper: Morningstar

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... opinions, two out of three (67%) respondents globally said that they believe ESG has become more material to investment policy in the past five years. The investment research and ratings firm recently revealed their top picks for undervalued stocks - ...

Vision Super in hot water over coal investment

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... analysis revealed it has purchased $2.2 million worth of Whitehaven Coal stocks after walking back its fossil fuel exclusion policy last year. The super fund changed its environmental, social and governance policy, removing its revenue-based coal, oil ...

Demand for human rights solutions intensifies

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... Multinational Enterprises, and the ILO Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy. It will be interoperable with the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), the Global Reporting Initiative ...

Sustainable Finance Roadmap to turbocharge investment

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... "will further Australia's ability to attract international capital for the transition". Erwin Jackson, managing director, policy, at the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) said the roadmap "provides a foundation for appropriate sustainability information ...

Gender gap to close in 134 years: World Economic Forum

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... disproportionately hit, reinforcing the systemic issues that hold women back in the workplace," LinkedIn vice president global public policy and economic graph Sue Duke said. "We are reaching a pivotal moment as generative AI starts to impact the labour ...

What's keeping the Treasurer up at night?

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... chief investment officer Rob Hogg said the easing of underlying inflation pressures is "extremely positive" from a monetary policy perspective. He said it's an easing in inflation that will enable the US Federal Reserve to cut rates. Energy transformation ...

Cromwell restructures lending facility

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... new sustainability-linked loan formed part of its broader environmental, sustainability, and corporate governance (ESG) policy. "We have been working with tenants and suppliers across all our upstream and downstream business activities - covering our ...

ASFA partners with First Nations Foundation

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture in everyday life, impacts of historical events, government legislation and policy, working and communicating with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, clients and colleagues, Aboriginal and ...

abrdn strengthens sustainability function

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... is a complex area, as the most important issues always are. I've also long admired the work done by abrdn around social policy, and I am excited to get started." Moody will chair the new executive sustainability committee. She joined in 2023 as chief ...

Canberra scopes First Nations economic policy

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... with Treasury. The aim is to improve access to capital markets and employment opportunities and address legislative or policy barriers that hinder that access. A key barrier to First Nations entrepreneurship is access to capital, particularly in regional ...