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Coca Cola, WWF-Australia, farmers mark 10 years of Project Catalyst

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2018  |  NEWS
... program, it's an opportunity to trial innovation that could yield positive commercial and environmental benefits with lower risk, said Project Catalyst grower Tony Bugeja from the Mackay Whitsunday region. Bugeja has been involved since the project's ...

Potentially hazardous ingredients in consumer products as investment risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2018  |  NEWS
... said Emily Prentice, research consultant at ISF and co-author of the report. "It boiled down to three different elements of risk.... Obviously, there was financial risk, whether there was vulnerability to regulatory issues, present or emerging, and a ...

Ausbil Investment Management launches Active Sustainable Equity Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2018  |  NEWS
... fund "invests in companies with sound sustainability profiles and avoids companies that are vulnerable to long-term earnings risk from sustainability weaknesses," Ausbil said. ESG are integral to Ausbil's investment process, noted Paul Xiradis, chief ...

Investors discuss reporting on risks via Modern Slavery Act

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
... funds - to report disclosures related to human rights due diligence and how companies ensure they monitor and reduce the risk of modern slavery in their operations and in their supply chain. The Modern Slavery Act and its expected impacts were the subject ...

Digitalization a megatrend with risks as well as opportunities: Morphosis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
... and governance (ESG) Focal issues driven by digitalization in real estate and cities representing both opportunities and risk.. There are six focal issues - "each with significant implications for sustainability in real estate and cities within the next ...

Insight Investment analyses ESG factors affecting sovereign credit

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
... to identify and consider those risks are not well established and can be difficult to integrate within existing investment-risk models" when it comes to credit markets, particularly on the sovereign side. "We believe that in the case of a corporate ...

Companies engage with material human rights issues: BCSD Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
... highly material topics. "I think it's emblematic of what's going on around corporates in terms of re-defining non-financial risk," said Andrew Petersen, CEO of BCSD Australia. "We see the same pattern of behaviour around climate risk - a re-emergence ...

Lawsuit against ExxonMobil heightens Australian directors climate risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
... directors. Sarah Barker, special counsel, Minter Ellison Lawyers "It's yet another signal to Australian directors that the risk of litigation for a failure to strategically govern for climate related financial risks is not merely theoretical," said Commonwealth ...

The pros and cons of using ESG signals in shorting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... better, in general," he said. "If you look at tobacco, the damage to public health is an unpriced externality, which is a risk. If you look at governance, we know that diverse teams make better decisions than non-diverse teams, and hiring women and minorities ...

Core Civic, GEO Group flagged for ESG controversies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... exposures." Both GEO Group and Core Civic have been rated poorly for employee health and safety as well, given the higher risk nature of prison security as well as allegations of understaffing at both companies, she added. MSCI shares its reports with ...