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The Sustainability Report relaunched as FS Sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... the alignment of the publication with Financial Standard and its suite of titles that cover Australia's wealth management landscape, including FS Advice, FS Super, FS Private Wealth and FS Managed Accounts. This announcement has come after the acquisition ...

The TCFD framework - What is it and how can it be applied to investment analysis?

AGNIESZKA COCHRANE  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... centres around four themes that represent core elements of how organisations operate, namely: governance strategy risk management and metrics and targets. To understand how the TCFD framework translates to corporate behaviour is to understand the key ...

Identifying climate change risks in investment analysis

AGNIESZKA COCHRANE  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... result in increased production costs due to the higher price of inputs (e.g. energy, water) and outputs (e.g. waste management). There is also the risk of asset re-pricing such as fossil fuel reserves, land and securities valuations. Further, there are ...

Rethinking ethics and code of conduct training

ATTRACTA LAGAN  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... unmemorable, generic and fails to resonate. The unintended consequence of such training is that it leaves employees jaded with management's intent, annoyed at the waste of their time and frustrated by the lack of relevance of content, despite well-known ...

Identifying potential risks of COVID-19 and modern slavery in supply chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... companies paying for cancelled orders, etc.," said Mans Carlsson-Sweeny, head of ESG research at Ausbil Investment Management. "The reason for that, of course, is external pressure. Some companies also realise that it is important to keep the relationship ...

ESG performance and cannabis

KELLIE JOHNSTON, ANDREA BREWER  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... institutional investors have been hesitant to invest in cannabis companies, for reasons that include weak corporate governance management approaches as well as poor management of environmental and social risks. Those that do invest in the industry may ...

Do founder-led listed companies outperform on E, S and G metrics?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... observation, but founder-led companies have less leverage, and debt than companies led by professional [non-founder] management, because they don't want to risk the long term business to make the short term look good," said Ian Carmichael, portfolio ...

Australia "woefully unprepared": Australian Climate Roundtable

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... mitigation action across government and the private sector, consistent with Paris Agreement goals, is responsible economic management that will help protect our prosperity." The group also calls for systemic risk assessment for the country overall, as ...

HSBC, Pollination Group to launch natural capital asset manager

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
HSBC Global Asset Management Limited and Pollination Group Holdings Limited have agreed to create a natural capital manager in a venture to mainstream natural capital as an asset class. HSBC Pollination Climate Asset Management "aims to offer investors ...

Climate, modern slavery areas of engagement: Ethical Partners

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
Climate issues and modern slavery were key issues of engagement for Ethical Partners Funds Management, which this week released its engagement report detailing activities over the past 12 months. Robyn Parkin, sustainability and advocacy, Ethical Partners ...