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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 ...

Women continue to see gains on ASX200 boards: AICD

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... members should look beyond traditional pools of candidates and focus on building the pipeline in executive and upper management. KPMG analysed the gender split on ASX201-299 companies and found that four primary sectors within the cohort have an average ...

Investors to increase climate-linked passive investments: DWS Group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... by consultants CREATE-Research. It covered over 131 pension plans in 20 jurisdictions with a combined assets under management of around EUR 2.25 trillion. More than half - 57% - said they expect overall ESG allocations to grow more than 5% per annum ...

ESG superannuation funds outperform in torrid year: Rainmaker

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... sectors that by and large have performed well during the FY. You can argue whether this is by good luck or good portfolio management, but to debate this is to totally miss the point. When resources stocks outperformed and ESG funds suffered I didn't ...

Data management presents risk, opportunity: Governance Institute

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... reputation than cybercrime or disruptions when it comes to innovating and legislative or regulatory change. "Like all risk management processes, it's owned by the board, so the board has to say to the management team, what is the process, how are you ...

Identifying exposures to modern slavery a key concern: Informed 365

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... of Australia to develop a self-assessment questionnaire for suppliers to report on their modern slavery exposures, management and monitoring processes, as well as a risk framework to allow the property companies to assess their exposures to their tier ...

Christian Super appoints Mark Rider as chief investment officer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... economist and head of economic activity and forecasting. Rider then joined UBS Investment Bank and UBS Global Asset Management, where he served for 16 years in roles including Australian chief economist, institutional account manager, equity strategist ...

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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... research from Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Australia. Robyn Parkin, sustainability and advocacy, Ethical Partners Funds Management There are more than 700 ASX-listed companies operating in 106 countries globally. PWYP Australia benchmarked the top 10 ...