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Integrating ESG essential to infrastructure portfolio: First Sentier Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... head of infrastructure asst management Europe at First Sentier. "If you can sustain your enterprise by having engaged employees, and a track record of improving your safety, a track record of great governance in training people from the bottom up, that's ...

Superannuation funds that invest responsibly outperform: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... translated into increase staff dedicated to responsible investment - 51% of super funds are employing one or more full-time employees with significant responsibility for responsible investment. Responsible Investment employee numbers have doubled since ...

Analysis: too big to be sustainable?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... in the air as of publication. It has yet to be determined what civil and potentially criminal penalties the bank and employees will face. Westpac does not stand alone in AML/KYC failures. Commonwealth Bank of Australia paid a then-record fine of $700 ...

Incorporating climate risk into investing, finance, and insurance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... overall enterprise risk management and strategic planning process. Firms need to understand how suppliers, customers, employees, and other stakeholders will be affected. Climate transition will be a long process and firms need to begin planning for it ...

Retail investors would accept lower returns for ethical performance: KPMG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
... Australian retail investors would accept lower financial returns if companies always acted ethically towards customers, employees and the community, according to new KPMG research. The report is based around a nationwide survey of 1,510 Australian retail ...

Companies increase ESG reporting, but "glaring gaps" remain: ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2019  |  NEWS
... lowest participation score being 59%. Twenty-two companies report the level of actively engaged/satisfaction of their employees as a standalone metric. "One-third of companies that reported employee engagement results reported both participation levels ...

Coca-Cola Amatil joins membership of BCSD Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2019  |  NEWS
... of the largest bottlers and distributors of ready-to-drink beverages in the Asia-Pacific. It has approximately 12,000 employees across the Asia-Pacific region and some of Australia's most recognisable brands including Coca-Cola, Sprite, Barista Bros ...

CEFC invests $30m in Woolworths Group green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2019  |  NEWS
... and New Zealand brands Woolworths, Countdown, Dan Murphy's, BWS and Big W. It has over 3,000 stores, more than 200,000 employees. Since 2015 the group has reduced its emissions by 13 per cent. Woolworths Group has listed examples of sustainability projects ...

Rise of automation to drive emergence of "super jobs": Deloitte

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2019  |  NEWS
... businesses (v 62% globally) are eliminating transactional work and replacing repetitive tasks and 68% are reskilling current employees. "Clearly, the challenge is what do you do with the middle management of your organisation whereby they tend to be ...

Corporate culture a factor in stock selection: WCM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... companies with high employee turnover, or higher employee turnover than peers," he said. "We want to see companies that keep employees around, employees that are excited to come to work and happy. One other thing we do, we'll ask employees if we get ...