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Responsible investment AUM grows, but disclosure lags: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... comprehensive stewardship," O'Connor added. The responsible investment approaches that most influence the final construction of responsible investor portfolios is environmental, social and governance (ESG) integration, and corporate engagement and ...

Australia "woefully unprepared": Australian Climate Roundtable

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... resilience financing options and, where appropriate, the application of national standards to build resilience (e.g. the construction code)." The group also prioritised integrating building resilience to the impacts of climate change with COVID-19 recovery ...

CEFC invests in Charter Hall Prime Industrial Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... offers significant potential to provide clean energy as well as grid services. "This investment will also lead to the construction of new assets that make use of the latest in sustainable design and materials, potentially driving uptake of materials ...

Aurecon directors appointed to FIDIC Sustainable Development Committee

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... committee will "advocate, guide and monitor best practice in sustainable development across the global engineering and construction industry, and will advise the FIDIC board on all aspects of sustainable development as part of the organisation's commitment ...

Carbon emissions need to peak "as soon as possible": AXA IM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... fastest-growing sources of greenhouse gas emissions - energy use in industrial processes, transportation and manufacturing/construction, which grew by 174%, 71% and 55% respectively. "This means that the transformation of these sectors will also have ...

Aberdeen Standard Investments launches smaller companies fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... integrates environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) analysis into its investment process, including the construction of the smaller companies fund. "We've embedded this ESG process into all our strategies," said Brett Jollie, managing director ...

Demand for climate aware, ESG investment: State Street Global Advisors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... companies based on material ESG elements that will impact their long term performance, using innovative portfolio construction techniques to increase exposure to these companies, and by 2022, voting against management of companies that are underperforming ...

AMP Capital regards long term impacts of COVID-19, climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... governance, skills on the board and the ability to do crisis planning." This leads to AMP Capital's work on board construction and appropriate diversity, she noted.

Poor disclosure around labour hire workforce in listed companies: ACCR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
More than 40 percent of ASX100 listed companies in the mining, construction, and commercial cleaning sectors have made no material disclosure about their labour hire and/or contracting workforce in annual reporting documents, according to research from ...

JANA providing services to retail sector, eyes retail ESG services

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... license approaches. We are also seeing movement towards managed accounts, specifically aspects such as portfolio construction efficiency. Add to that the governance overlay, which is becoming more significant across the whole industry, not just in retail." ...