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Rethinking ethics and code of conduct training

ATTRACTA LAGAN  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... organisation. It further assumes that employees will interpret the code's direc-tives in the same way regardless of age, gender, race or educational background. The traditional, tired approach to code of conduct training stays silent on the informal ...

More companies reporting on SDGs, but quality lacking: RMIT

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... assessing real progress towards achieving them difficult to determine. The three most commonly mentioned SDGs were SDG 5 - Gender Equality, SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth, and SDG 13 - Climate Action. The three least commonly cited SDGs were ...

Women continue to see gains on ASX200 boards: AICD

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... board-ready women in Australia," Wakefield Evans said. "We look forward to working with stakeholders on our goal of achieving gender parity on boards and addressing systemic barriers to this change." There is an increased focus on extending the 30% target ...

KPMG outlines focus on gender diversity in ASX201-300 company boards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
In order to increase gender diversity on ASX201-300 company boards, existing board members should look beyond traditional pools of candidates and focus on building the pipeline in executive and upper management, according to research from KPMG. Sarah ...

Australian impact investing market nearly triples in past two years: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... conservation (14%) rate highest among respondents, followed by housing and homelessness (10%) education (8%), health (7%) and gender equality or economic opportunities for women (6%). The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are awakening new interest in ...

BetaShares ethical ETFs see nearly $300m in new inflows in 2020

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... human rights & supply chain concerns. In addition, both ETHI and FAIR are the first ethical ETFs in the market to include a gender diversity screen, screening out companies that do not have female board representation. BetaShares launched a third, ethical ...

Aviva Investors identifies megatrends representing market failures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... includes issues challenging companies to publish data on a broad range of issues including human rights, climate change, gender balance and living wage - alongside the core governance questions of board calibre, board independence, and executive pay ...

Pioneer issuance puts COVID-19 bonds on investment agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... program which we've supplemented to embed the SDGs," Jenkins said. "We have previously issued a social bond - the 2017 Gender Equality bond - and we expanded that program to issue social bonds to fund social infrastructure, that is to finance and refinance ...

Identifying potential risks of COVID-19 and modern slavery in supply chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... sectors of society are being left to deal with the illness themselves." There are also increased risks of domestic and gender based violence faced by women who work in factories, Sutcliffe added. CARE International works with 51 factories in Cambodia ...

The role of finance has never been more important: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... and its potential impacts on the push to decarbonise the global economy, a focus on water scarcity, Indigenous issues and gender equality a key point of discussion, but the full story. In the scenario of the transition to more reliance on renewable energy ...