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Australian business environment amongst world's most resilient: FM Global

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... world's most resilient", particularly around supply chain resilience, but is exposed to a number of risks, including cyber risk, oil intensity and corporate governance, according to commercial insurer FM Global. Lynette Schultheis, operations manager ...

ACCR files resolutions with BHP, AGL for AGM votes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... addition to the resolutions we file," he said. "We have reached the point that for some companies that are not managing climate risk particularly well, directors do need to be held accountable." With the high likelihood that the 2020 AGM season will ...

Investors to increase climate-linked passive investments: DWS Group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... respondents, and 89% treat equities as their favourite underlying asset class. "The emphasis in the beginning was very much on risk mitigation," Rajan said. "Let's avoid sin stocks if we can. But investors soon realised that this sort of exclusion narrowed ...

MBS launches Centre for Sustainability and Business

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... Hoetker said. "We see a lot of companies that have engaged operationally with sustainability, probably from a compliance/risk viewpoint," he said. "But it's encouraging to see how companies are on the edge of being able to push to the strategic side ...

ESG superannuation funds outperform in torrid year: Rainmaker

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
Four out of the top five best performing personal balanced super fund investment options for the 2019-2020 financial year were ESG options, according to research from Rainmaker Information. While the overall Rainmaker MySuper investment performance ...

Data management presents risk, opportunity: Governance Institute

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
There is a disconnect between IT and business leaders regarding the risk and opportunity of consumer data, according to new research from the Governance Institute of Australia and CSIRO. Megan Motto, Governance Institute CEO The report - Digital Trust ...

BNP Paribas issues $140m in equity-linked green bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... CEFC. "As the first forward-looking index in the Australian market, it gives investors the capacity to analyse the climate risk profile of their ASX portfolios," Learmonth said. "At the same time, it gives emissions-focused companies access to a greater ...

Capacity, resilience and interdependency key engagement topics: Regnan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... fact that businesses exist in an increasingly complex context that they need to manage. We're focusing on interdependency risk - highlighted by the current pandemic - and at the macro level, the interaction between the economic and social system, the ...

Identifying exposures to modern slavery a key concern: Informed 365

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... facing. Below tier 1, the issues quickly escalate and the data isn't that great. We're trying to give companies a high level risk indicator, and we did talk to the Home Affairs Department. They confirm that the data around modern slavery internationally ...

ASX-listed mining, gas and oil companies lack tax transparency: PWYP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... and the general ability of us to have confidence as investors in the governance of companies and plays into understanding risk appetite," she explained. Ethical Partners Funds Management uses the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index ...