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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... group." State Street Global Advisors' R-Factor integrates multiple data sources and is built utilising the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) materiality framework. The fund manager uses SASB's Materiality Map to generate a unique ESG score ...

Insure Our Future calls for halt to insuring oil and gas projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... action on fossil fuel insurance. The report notes that burning coal is the biggest single source of CO2 emissions, accounting for 40.3% of global CO2 emissions in 2018, not including emissions from land use changes for which no recent data exist. However ...

Human capital management a signal of overall sustainability: Lazard

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... fund by identifying what are the most material issues." Lazard supports companies reporting via the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) guidelines and the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). "We support - SASB and ...

State Street Global Advisors launch Climate ESG International Equity Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... Advisors' ESG scoring system, R-Factor. R-Factor integrates multiple data sources and is built utilising the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) materiality framework. The fund manager uses SASB's Materiality Map to generate a unique ESG ...

Accounting bodies develop guidelines for disclosing to SDGs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA ANZ) and Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS) have released a paper outlining recommendations on disclosing for the Sustainable ...

Climate action by regulators deferred, not denied: MinterEllison

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... the impact of climate change on financial performance, position and prospects. Further, in April 2019, the Australian Accounting Standards Board and Auditing and Assurance Standards Board "issued joint guidance stating that climate change-related assumptions ...

ESG focus on climate change, income inequality: T. Rowe Price

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... advocating aligning ESG disclosure with global frameworks that emphasise financial materiality, namely the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosure (TCFD). "The value of pressing for greater ...

IFM Investors report carbon emission reduction in Australian infrastructure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... Brisbane Airport installing the largest single rooftop solar panel installation at an Australian airport (6,545 panels) accounting for 18 per cent of BAC's direct electricity consumption and Melbourne Airport's development of 11MW of onsite solar, enabling ...

Northern Trust launches ESG Analytics Summary for investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... insights into their environmental, social and governance (ESG) risk exposures. Serge Boccassini, product lead, Investment Accounting and Analytic Solutions at Northern Trust The ESG Analytics Summary, prepared by Northern Trust's Investment Risk and ...

Treasurers cite positive impact in green bonds: Climate Bonds Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... treasurers from 34 countries. Respondent organisations represented around 44% of the identified green bond universe accounting for a total of US$7.4 trillion in bonds outstanding, including US$222 billion of green bonds and collectively 686 green bonds ...

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Santos receives takeover offer from Abu Dhabi-led consortium

ANDREW MCKEAN
Santos has received a non-binding $8.89 per share cash offer from the XRG Consortium, led by XRG P.J.S.C., a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ANDOC), alongside Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund ADQ and US private equity firm Carlyle.

What do the best-functioning boards look like?

KARREN VERGARA
The best-functioning boards are future thinkers, understand their ESG responsibilities and are able to show their "battle scars," according to two governance experts.

Funding lifts for climate, health, people startups

KARREN VERGARA
While funding for impact startups has broadly declined, those operating in climate, health and people has seen funding levels improve compared to three years ago, according to the Impact Startups Benchmark Report 2025.

Mind the gap: Investors' role in balancing fairness and competitiveness in executive pay

ALEXANDRE PROST
Investors have a significant role to play in helping to move the dial on executive remuneration, aiming to increase fairness and reduce inequality.

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