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Embedding mental health wellbeing into company culture

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
Companies should take a systems-level approach to making mental health and wellbeing fundamental to their workplaces, according to new recommendations by a mental health not for profit. batyr, a for-purpose preventative mental health organisation focusing ...

Podcast: Greening corporate finance - Alison Chan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
In this episode, we speak with Metrics investment director - sustainable finance Alison Chan. Chan has packed a lot of career experience into a short amount of time and we going to talk the state of sustainable finance in Australia as well as the future ...

Leading Harvest launches Australian ag sustainability standard

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
Leading Harvest is implementing a sustainability assurance program for the Australian agriculture sector after a successful pilot backed by Warakirri Asset Management among others. Leading Harvest is a non-profit that has developed the Farmland Management ...

Women-led founders, climate tech grow VC impact sector

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
Women-led impact startups constituted a quarter of the venture capital opportunities reviewed by Giant Leap in 2022, a higher percentage than the broader VC ecosystem. VC impact investor Giant Leap released its second Impact Startups Benchmark Report ...

Fink counts the cost of "easy money" in annual letter

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
BlackRock chairman Larry Fink warned that dominos may be starting to fall as global economies count the price of more than a decade of easy money in his annual letter to investors. In a letter where ESG and climate change took a backseat to concerns ...

Aviva Investors creates head of climate policy role

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
Aviva Investors has created a new role of head of climate policy, responsible for developing the global fund manager's macro stewardship programme. Aviva Investors has hired Nick Molho as the new head of climate policy. He joins in June and will report ...

Australian Ethical divests from Lendlease over koala concerns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
Concerns over the survival of a healthy koala colony in south-western Sydney has triggered Australian Ethical to divest its holdings in Lendlease Group. Australian Ethical has sold its shares in Lendlease over the planned development at Mt Gilead in ...

Former MAS chief sustainability officer launches advisory firm

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
The former inaugural chief sustainability officer of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has launched a consultancy to support companies seeking sustainability services without having a full-time chief sustainability officer. Brisbane native Darian ...

Activist investor launches Santos campaign

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
A London-based activist investor has called Santos' growth strategy "misguided, reckless and driven by fundamental misalignment between executive incentives and shareholder interests." Snowcap Research, which is an investor in Santos, has issued ...

First Super taps IFM Investors for ESG mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
First Super has appointed IFM Investors to manage a new indexed international equities strategy that prioritises strong performance on ESG with a focus on governance and labour rights. The new strategy is designed to provide exposure to a diversified ...