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Investors still drawn to DEI

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... metrics for evaluation, including independence, accountability and responsiveness. This month, Goldman Sachs discontinued its policy requiring US and Western European companies to have a minimum number of diverse board members before assisting them with ...

Asset managers react to news 2C is 'dead'

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... and flexible methodology" to assess portfolio alignment to net zero. This includes consideration of existing and future policy environments and what it means for different sector transition pathways. Alphinity also said "the current global warming projections ...

Investors must take a long-term view: Robeco

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
The global policy landscape looks very different now from what it was in 2020-21, when investors, corporates and governments massively committed to net zero - amounting to 93% of global GDP and 88% of global emissions. By and large, governments have ...

ART, MLC AM, HESTA name directors

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... is a director of the Regional Australia Institute. Most recently, she was appointed to the central bank's Monetary Policy Board. For her part, Thomas recently stepped down from the Brighter Super board, having been a director since 2017, She currently ...

Investors and business leaders call for end to 'weak' net zero pledge

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... states. "Our international competitors are rapidly decarbonising, and Australian businesses are being left behind. "We need policy settings that support rather than obstruct our progress." Signatories include Bernie Fraser, CSIRO, Morgan and Banks, Marinya ...

ESG not dead yet: Fidelity

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... ways to drive positive change, with impact investing, exclusionary screening, individual company engagement and government policy and regulation among the top strategies, Tan said. "As an active manager and steward of client capital, we have a part to ...

Investors slam dumping of nature positive laws

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... species at risk Environmental groups are appalled, with Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) national biodiversity policy advisor Brendan Sydes saying the non-profit supports the reforms that were tabled as part of the Albanese government's 2022 ...

Activist investors set sights on paid parental leave

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... February asking G8 to follow the Workplace Gender Equality Agency's best practice guide in formulating a paid parental leave policy. The activist investor works by gathering 100 shareholders, the minimum required to file a resolution in Australia. "In ...

Green moves: UN PRI, Ditchley, Honest Work

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... adapt and engage, PRI said. It is this role that Tang steps into, overseeing signatory engagement and working closely on policy engagement with PRI's head of APAC policy Kazuma Osaki and the team. "Investors in this region are keenly aware of the significant ...

Green moves: S&P, Northern Trust, Magellan, Maple-Brown Abbott

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... technical expert group advisor to the Responsible Investment Association of Australasia's certification program and policy advocacy working group and has also worked with the Investor Group on Climate Change and Investors Against Slavery and Trafficking. ...