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Investors back modern slavery compensation

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
A group of 45 investors with $11.9 trillion in assets under management have signalled support for a national compensation scheme for modern slavery victim-survivors in Australia. There are at least 1900 victim-survivors of modern slavery in Australia ...

ASX companies boosting ESG staff, oversight: Perennial

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
Greenhouse gas emissions are once again the top ESG priority for companies, according to the most recent Perennial Better Future ESG survey. In the fifth edition of the Better Future survey, sent to approximately 200 ASX-listed corporates with responses ...

Green bond investors left in the dark

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
Green bond investors find themselves navigating blind due to the lack of standardised emissions reporting methodologies, a specialist global asset manager has revealed. These impact bonds, designed to finance environmentally beneficial projects, also ...

Aussie investors prepare for new EU rules

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
The year ahead will see multiple significant regulatory changes affecting financiers who engage with European markets. From January, new EU Taxonomy rules, International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) disclosure standards, and International Financial ...

Investors push for nature in climate plans

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 6 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
Transition plans are pivotal to ensuring companies' credibility in achieving net-zero goals - but currently do not factor in safeguarding and restoring nature and biodiversity. In a bid to accelerate the protection and restoration of nature, finance ...

Podcast: Speaking truth to power on climate finance

THE GREENER WAY  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
On this episode, we're going to do a deeper dive into how we measure sustainable finance, and how we value the dollar impact of financing emissions-intensive activities. This is a key discussion point particularly as we look at Australia's sustainable ...

Ninety One launches emerging market transition debt fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
Global investment manager Ninety One has launched an emerging market debt strategy that will focus on investing in company issuance that finances the transition to a lower carbon economy. The Emerging Market Transition Debt (EMTD) will aim to provide ...

Nature-related disclosures underway

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
Reporting on nature-related corporate disclosures with the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) is now underway, with the first 320 companies and financial institutions now taking part. The first cohort of adopters are taking steps ...

Australian gender pay gap data to be revealed from February

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
From February 2024, Australian companies with 100 or more employees will be required to publish their median gender pay gap between male and female employees. The Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) will publish the first set of private sector employer ...

Guide to identify and manage modern slavery for NSW entities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
The NSW anti-slavery commissioner's office has published a guidance on managing modern slavery risks applicable to the more than 400 NSW public entities that fall under that state's modern slavery legislation. The Guidance on Reasonable Steps to Manage ...