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Investing for the day after tomorrow: Janus Henderson

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... products in terms of whether there is an intention to be inclusive in the design and the marketing. We engaged with quite a few companies where there was opportunity to be more inclusive in the design." COVID-19 highlighted some of the blind spots in ...

Cost of no climate action to hit Australian economy: Report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
More than 30% of employed Australians and 30% of national income come from industries exposed to economic disruption and risk from climate change and an unplanned economic transition, according to Deloitte Access Economics. Australia's agriculture ...

ESG ETP market continues to grow: Zenith

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... number of funds that fall into the "aware" or "integrated" category - if they are an ESG-centric ETF, of which there are a few, the majority have fallen into the integrated category." Higgins noted that out of the 79 ETPs it rates as investment grade ...

Medibank issues first sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... relevance to their business model. "We think there's a boldness and an aspiration to the SDGs," she said. "We've toyed with a few different way of reporting against the SDGs, and this is our first attempt to do that. The six we selected stood out that ...

PRI recgonises leaders for climate reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... clients being interested in that concept going forward. At the moment, its' still early days, but we expect over the next few years, we'll see clients more explicitly wanting portfolios to be more aligned with the Paris Climate Agreement." Neuberger ...

Climate, worker rights rise up ESG agenda: Perennial

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... modern slavery had risen up the agenda - although 18% of respondents focused on Worker Rights and Modern Slavery in the past few years, 40% of companies expect to focus more on this theme over the next 12-18 months, the survey found. "Modern slavery ...

Governance key concern for AGM season: Dimensional Fund Advisors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... COVID-19 pandemic. "This is a very big topic for us because we've had experience with this post-2008 and we learned quite a few things there," Singh said. "The problem is they're big transactions, with big discounts and done a big hurry, which lends ...

BlackRock details engagement activity in stewardship report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... communities, how they're treating their employees, so it really has heightened the activities that we've talked about in the last few years." Climate risk has not taken a back seat this year. "The environmental risk component of this has not gone away ...

ESG scores linked to higher stock valuation: Bank of America

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
Stocks with higher environmental, social and governance (ESG) scores have outperformed companies with lower ESG scores, according to Bank of America. Good ESG companies typically have better return on equity, lower earnings volatility and lower share ...

Chronos Sustainability appoints Arisa Kishigami

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... Japan Sustainable Investment Forum (J-SIF) and the Working Group for Asia Investor Group on Climate Change (AIGCC). "There are few specialists who bring a similar strength of reputation, expertise and depth of knowledge of Asian and European markets ...