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Increasing financial inclusion could yield increasing revenue to banks: EY

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2018  |  NEWS
... potential revenue that EY estimates could be as high as US$88 billion by 2020 in the Asia Pacific region. Jan Bellens, EY global emerging markets leader EY has published Innovation in financial inclusion: Revenue growth through innovative inclusion ...

Australian banks, Fortescue Metals appear in Bloomberg Gender Equality Index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2018  |  NEWS
... members of organizations advocating for gender equality "The diversity of our company - women make up more than 50% of our global workforce, more than 40% of our global managers, more than 40% of our global management team and more than 35% of our board ...

Vision Super publishes Corporate Responsibility report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2018  |  NEWS
... ExxonMobil to increase its disclosures of climate risk and also supporting a resolution calling on McDonalds to adhere to global sourcing targets "with timelines for pork and beef raised without routine use of medically-important antibiotics, which is ...

PRI publishes guide on responsible investment in infrastructure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2018  |  NEWS
... Responsible Investment. The PRI established a PRI Infrastructure Advisory Committee in February 2017. The work stream "provides a global platform for collaboration between institutional investors and managers to understand and develop good practices ...

UNEP FI select Oliver Wyman, Mercer as expert advisers on TCFD-related project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2018  |  NEWS
... also of the TCFD. We are therefore very pleased to have the support of Oliver Wyman and Mercer as we work together with 16 global banks to operationalize and mainstream the TCFD recommendations into their core businesses." Oliver Wyman and Mercer, jointly ...

Willis Towers Watsons joins Climate Bonds Partners Program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2018  |  NEWS
... Kidney, CEO, Climate Bonds Initiative The Climate Bonds Partners Program is designed to support the development of the global market for climate and green bonds through three paths: "work to shift investment to rapidly delivering a low-carbon and climate ...

CEFC, Australian Ethical Investment invest in Dexus Healthcare Wholesale Property Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017  |  NEWS
Dexus has completed the first round of equity raising for the environmentally sustainable Healthcare Wholesale Property Fund (HWPF). HWPF is an Australian-first portfolio of hospital and healthcare assets with an environmentally sustainable focus. HWPF ...

High to severe ESG incidents affect market capitalisation: Sustainalytics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017  |  NEWS
... Normalizing for country size (GDP), Australia is the sixth most incident prone country, with 70 incidents per unit of GDP." The global average of incidents per unit of GDP was 63, Sustainalytics said. "Of 45 possible incident tags, the 10 most common ...

NZ Super to exclude companies in recreational cannabis industry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017  |  NEWS
... drug conventions. NZ Super decided to proactively add recreational cannabis companies to its exclusion list, following a global trend to decriminalise and legalise the recreational use of cannabis, which NZ Super notes "has led to share market listings ...

UCA Funds Management hires Mathew Browning as new CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2017  |  NEWS
... resulting in substantial growth in funds under advice. Prior to MFCo, Browning co-founded a boutique asset manager focused on global healthcare equities targeting both wholesale and retail investors. The fund doubled the return of the MSCI World Health ...