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Canberra scopes First Nations economic policy

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
The Coalition of Peaks is currently consulting on the design of a First Nations Economic Partnership with Treasury. The aim is to improve access to capital markets and employment opportunities and address legislative or policy barriers that hinder that ...

Global investors unite for Climate Action 100+

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... Church of England Pensions Board, and the New York State Common Retirement Fund. The world's largest investor-led engagement initiative on corporate greenhouse gas emissions received backing from asset owners representing US$4.6 trillion in assets. ...

One in three analyse physical climate risk: IGCC

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... and resilience, analysing and acting on physical risk, improving Australia's policy environment, ramping up corporate engagement and stewardship. Only a small proportion of investors analyse and act on physical risk across asset classes. "This year's ...

ESG fund performance leans on growth

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... targets "a positive impact on the most important environmental and social challenges faced through both investment and engagement." The strategy "does not expose investors to excessive style bias (notably growth). This has resulted in highly differentiated ...

AXA IM releases engagement data

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... and corporate governance were the biggest areas of focus for the leading global asset manager, which ramped up its engagement activities by 14% on the previous year. AXA Investment Managers, with €844 billion AUM, made 681 engagements with 503 entities ...

Podcast: Timber talks - Cultivating natural capital with Sarah Clawson

THE GREENER WAY  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... prioritising ESG principles. We discuss sustainable landscape management, carbon credits integrity, and First Nations engagement policy and philosophy. Sarah just completed a trip to New Forest's newly opened office in Africa; she discusses the firm's ...

Younger members drive demand

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... overall," said Chun. About 75% of the super fund's assets are managed in-house. "That means we have a very active engagement model with companies that we invest in." For example, the fund holds board seats in many of the private companies it invests ...

On biodiversity, a 143-year-old museum comes to the rescue

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... Australian Conservation Foundation also sees the value of working with investment managers and super funds. "We see the engagement that the financial sector is doing with companies as extremely important and impactful. We're all part of this big ...

Active ownership is the new sheriff in town

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... will make it painfully clear which companies deliver real value and which ones destroy it. The intensity of active engagement in the past 20 years will be dwarfed by what will happen in the next six years, said Stewart. For example, in 2004, Aware Super ...

Doing better on First Nations heritage

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... destruction of Juukan Gorge in 2020 in the Western Pilbara was a flash point in awareness of First Nations heritage and engagement issues in Australia. In May 2020 two ancient rock shelters on the traditional lands of the Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura ...