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Opinion: The housing burden is large enough to be shared by many parties

SCOTT LANGFORD  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... Corporation (NHFIC), Lendlease, and all three levels of government contributed to tackle one of the greatest problems facing Australia, the lack of affordable housing in our capital cities. Millions of Australians - including those earning good money ...

Companies failing harassment victims: ACSI

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... credible. However, Pahari's career would not suffer, and he went on to be promoted to chief executive of AMP Capital in Australia. Kate Jenkins, Australian sex discrimination commissioner for the Australian Human Rights Commission, said Szlakowski's ...

Banks face multi-billion risks from climate change: Accenture

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... climate change, create a climate risk register, conduct framework gap analysis, and quantify and measure climate risk. In Australia, APRA is developing a framework to assess Australia's largest banks for their vulnerability to climate risk. APRA ...

Carbon capture and storage questioned after Chevron result

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... within the oil and gas industry. On Monday, Chevron, the operator of the CCS facility at the Gorgon LNG plant in Western Australia, announced that it had reached the milestone of injecting five million tonnes of greenhouse gas (carbon dioxide equivalent ...

Institutional Shareholder Services to acquire Rainmaker Information

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... market-leading combination of proprietary datasets, industry benchmarking, research, and market-share reporting for Australia, accessible via its RainmakerLive software platform. Rainmaker also operates a media, events and awards business under key mastheads ...

Agriculture business signs first sustainability linked loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
A big four bank has inked the first sustainability linked loan (SLL) for Australia's agriculture industry. Commonwealth Bank has signed an SLL with premium Queensland producer Stockyard Group for an undisclosed sum. The three-year loan has set targets ...

Global sustainable investment grows 15%: GSIA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
Australia and New Zealand have the third highest proportion of sustainable investments in the world, with more than a third of AUM sustainably managed. The biennial Global Sustainable Investment Review, released today by the Global Sustainable Investment ...

Activist group files climate resolution to AGL AGM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... and 3 emissions for AGL and the proposed demerged company. AGL has announced plans to split into two companies - AGL Australia, which will hold the company's power, gas and telecommunications retailing divisions as well as some cleaner generation assets ...

ACSI announces new president, deputy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
Debby Blakey has been appointed the new president of the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI). The HESTA CEO replaces Ian Silk, the outgoing chief executive of AustralianSuper. Michelle Gardiner, trustee director of Care Super, will ...

Global fund manager launches bond impact strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... the fore the need to tackle social and environmental issues head on," said Andrew Kleinig, managing director, head of Australia, Nuveen. "In response, we are seeing increasing demand from our clients for investment solutions that offer both returns and ...