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The Sustainability Report relaunched as FS Sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... industry to confidently integrate ESG principles into every dollar they manage," said Michelle Baltazar, executive director of media at Financial Standard. As part of the transition, FS Sustainability has also launched a new website, updated social media ...

ESG superannuation funds outperform in torrid year: Rainmaker

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
Four out of the top five best performing personal balanced super fund investment options for the 2019-2020 financial year were ESG options, according to research from Rainmaker Information. While the overall Rainmaker MySuper investment performance ...

Consortium participants identify impact characteristics of AAP investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... behind the purchase of the AAP Newswire have labelled the transaction an impact investment motivated by a desire to protect media diversity in Australia. The deal that was announced earlier this month will see the consortium purchase the AAP Newswire ...

Ethical approach yields investment benefits: Crescent Wealth

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
Crescent Wealth 's approach to ethical investment in line with Islamic investment standards has seen the superannuation and fund manager outperform in the early part of 2020. Talal Yassine, managing director, Crescent Wealth Crescent Wealth's approach ...

Super funds lag on disclosing proxy voting record: ACCR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... of climate-related proposals (138 out of 686 proposals) between 2017 and 2019: Cbus, AustralianSuper, BT Financial Group, Media Super, Russell Investments, First State Super, UniSuper and AMP. The point of the research is not to see all superannuation ...

Majority of Australians want greater action on climate change: Glow

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... Australians are for nuclear power compared to 31% who are against it as an alternative to carbon. However, according to media reports from 2019, a survey from Essential found that 44% of Australians support nuclear power plants, up four points since ...

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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... support with visa and migration issues and migration clinics for farm workers, and also communicating through webinars, social media platforms and text messaging, Armstrong said. "We are providing a whole bunch of traditional union support about ensuring ...

Forum360 highlights case for virtual shopping for fund managers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... proposition of Forum360 matches the multichannel nature of wholesale funds distribution, Hirst said. "A company can distribute via media, brokers, proxy firms, whether that's the adviser groups, or private banks," he said. "This is about working in a ...

Australian Ethical to cut administration fees, enhance customer experience

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... point of view, we've got approaching 50,000 members now in the business, but even more than that, there are 130,000 social media followers in the business," McMurdo said. "They're actively interested in what the company is doing, how we're investing ...

Analysis: too big to be sustainable?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... operations, what else is going on? How endemic is this to banking in Australia, and how do we all - including us in the media - respond? Further, when a bank cannot perform its central legal and regulatory obligations of accurately reporting transactions ...