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Insight Investment launches proprietary ESG risk rating system

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... party models, they will also have indicators around shareholder rights - the ability to remove directors and influence boards - that are less relevant for bondholders. As a fixed income indicator, we look at governance slightly differently. We are in ...

State Street Global Advisors launch Climate ESG International Equity Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... members of companies that are laggards on ESG performance. CEO Cyrus Taraporevala announced in his annual letter to corporate boards that they will "take appropriate voting action" against board members at companies in the S&P 500, FTSE 350, ASX 100 ...

UN GCNA appoints Pru Bennett to board of directors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... groups for the Australian and Hong Kong chapters of the 30% club - a market initiative to increase the number of women on boards and in senior management and has published a number of papers on board diversity.

PGIM charts rise of corporate "profit with purpose" mindset

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... economy, which ones face reputational risk, which management teams are overly aggressive in reporting cashflows, which boards are lax on monopolistic challenges," Hyat said. This process of gaining greater insights into companies strategies and investments ...

J.P. Morgan Asset Management developing ESG scoring framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... strong corporate culture with a focus on directors who represent all shareholders equally and on companies with diverse boards." Strategy Alignment with the Long Term. JPMAM expects companies and boards to align themselves with long-term outcomes, including ...

Governance Institute releases climate change risk disclosure guide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... a whole of organisation effort," Motto said. "That's the biggest barrier. The fact that this is new territory for many boards is why we include things like case studies. Because there is so much information out there, so many sustainability frameworks ...

ASX200 boards above 30% women in aggregate, but six have none

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... six companies still have no women on their board. In December 2019, AICD announced that percentage of women on ASX 200 boards had reached 30 per cent for the first time. As of 31 January 2020, women held 30.7 per cent of board seats on the ASX 200. "As ...

Hendrik van Calcar steps down as director of Qantas Super

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... investment risks, returns and reputation. We actively exercise share ownership rights and constructively engage with company boards about material ESG issues" Qantas Super had $8.45 billion in assets under management as of 31 July 2019.

SSGA to vote against ASX100, global ESG laggards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... Colton, head of asset stewardship, Asia Pacific, SSGA CEO Cyrus Taraporevala announced in his annual letter to corporate boards that they will "take appropriate voting action" against board members at companies in the S&P 500, FTSE 350, ASX 100, TOPIX ...

Analysis: climate change, Australia and the fierce urgency of now

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... bushfire crisis, a couple of things became clear to us - one is that investors still have this overwhelming bias towards boards, and not taking positions against the recommendations of boards. We need for this to be reversed. The evidence that investors ...