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Ratcheting up ambition on climate finance goals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... How is Aviva Investors engaging with its invested companies on the topic of climate finance in this context? A: As shareholders in businesses, we have a regulatory role as proxy voters. We tend to be a large presence on a share roll. That gives us a ...

ESG, corporate purpose top CEOs' agenda: KPMG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... stakeholders. Second priority was to improve society and only third ( 16% Australian, 13% global) was to increase returns for shareholders. Climate change is dominating Australian CEOS concerns, with 84% of Australian CEOs saying the November COP26 meeting ...

Santos sued over clean energy, net zero claims

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... processes." Santos is one of several ASX companies that have committed to putting their climate strategy plans to shareholders to a vote at their 2022 AGMs. The "say on climate" resolutions are advisory votes only, and Gocher says the vote isn't sufficient. ...

Leading fund manager scales ESG presence in Asia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... learning in Singapore. "Whether it is analysing ESG data, integrating climate change considerations or maximizing shareholders' value through active ownership, Robeco has deep knowledge to help investors in Asia meet their sustainable investing objectives," ...

Activist group files climate resolution to AGL AGM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... those targets and how remuneration policies for executives will align with achieving those targets. "AGL has cost shareholders dearly by failing to effectively manage the energy transition to date, seeing its share price plummet by more than 70% since ...

ASX200 CEO pay drops to lowest levels in more than decade: ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... termination payments which were in direct contrast to the negative financial outcomes many companies were delivering to shareholders. "Since then, engagement between investors and company boards has led to a wholesale re-thinking of the ways in which ...

Calculating the value of green transitions: UBS AM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... financial value they create, show that green actions are in shareholder's interest and that lack of action leaves shareholders exposed to undesirable risks" he said. "We don't know how the political landscape will shift in the years and decades to come. ...

A little more conversation and a lot more action

PIERRE LENDERS  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... were valued, and the historical view of a corporation's objective, which was to increase profits for itself and its shareholders. Social responsibility did not play a role. The idea that a corporation has a social obligation as well as a profit objective ...

ASX companies face heightened stakeholder scrutiny

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
... lending against equity and we deal almost exclusively with long term investors - founders of listed companies, major shareholders, management and directors," Kent said. "The issues of corporate governance are really relevant to that. These are questions ...

Powerful signal on climate with votes, court decisions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
... levels, in a case filed by Friends of the Earth. Shell has vowed to appeal the ruling. Additionally, 61% of Chevron shareholders supported a resolution filed by Follow This calling on the company to set targets to reduce all of its emissions, including ...