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Social license to operate, stakeholder management key governance concerns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... companies significantly underperformed the ASX200. Investors and asset owners are engaging with companies on conduct, management of intangible assets such as social license to operate and whether companies are managing the shift towards a wider stakeholder ...

The conundrum of ESG in emerging markets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... companies improve their operations in the mid-to-long term. These can be governance-related, such as an improvement in management which means that they now favour minority shareholder interests. For example, when management incentives become more aligned ...

Integrating ESG to manage risks of high yield credit

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... more aligned with bondholder interests, and corporate transparency keeps bondholders better informed of exposure and management of risk, of particular relevance given the complexity and opacity in the high yield market. Engagement in the high yield credit ...

Integrating impact investing in listed equity portfolios

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... social and environmental benefits. Further practices include use of evidence and impact data in investment design, the management of impact performance, or the specific intention to manage investments to that intention, and contribution to the growth ...

ESG funds show strong risk-adjusted returns: Rainmaker

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... capability and with the view that we want to be able to have a much richer, in-depth dialogue with our clients on their management of ESG." Willis Towers Watson also operates on the basis that integration ESG factors and sustainability considerations ...

Australian Ethical tops $5 billion in assets under management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
Australian Ethical Investment has surpassed $5 billion in funds under management, a growth figure that sets the company up to push further into existing markets and develop its relationships in the advisory space. Australian Ethical's funds under ...

SSGA to use proxy vote over ethnic, racial diversity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... positive impacts diverse groups can have on improved decision making, risk oversight, and innovation, as well as how management teams with a critical mass of racial, ethnic, and gender diversity are more likely to generate above-average profitability," ...

Global fund managers unite to accelerate natural capital investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
HSBC Pollination Climate Asset Management and two international fund managers have founded an initiative to accelerate investment in natural capital. The Natural Capital Investment Alliance has been established by the Prince of Wales as part of his ...

Water, water risk everywhere: DWS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... companies and investors regarding their entire environmental and social impacts The multilateral push for disclosure, management and monitoring of biodiversity use, destruction and enhancement will follow the path of climate risk disclosure and management ...

Successful ESG integration: moving from why to how

GUILLAUME MASCOTTO  |  TUESDAY, 29 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... investing is neither a fad nor a subjective enterprise. Rather, it has become a critical part of day-to-day investment management. Global investor commitment to ESG and impact themed investing has evolved from a question about why ESG is important to ...