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Consortium participants identify impact characteristics of AAP investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... 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 text and image ...

Carbon emissions need to peak "as soon as possible": AXA IM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... 2018 levels. Climate change would remain a key focus area for AXA IM's stewardship team, along with biodiversity loss, diversity and public health, said Matt Christensen, AXA IM's global head of impact strategy and responsible investments. "As an industry ...

Ex-Rosenberg Equities executives launch Radiant ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... investors and wealth managers," according to the founders. "The ultimate goal is to manage money in a specific way that is diversity focused and ESG focused, without sacrificing returns," McDonald said. "We are applying that to the goal of being the ...

Demand for climate aware, ESG investment: State Street Global Advisors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... they manage human capital and social capital," Wallace said. "Now, as we can see in the US, inequality and the lack of diversity or equal opportunities, this is really at the forefront on executives' minds, not only environmental and governance issues. ...

Digital human rights rise up the agenda post-COVID-19: Robeco

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... weren't talking as much about this. Obviously, things have moved on - GDPR have come into play, but there is such a diversity of topics under human rights... and they are interlinked. We take a human rights lens to digital human rights and ask companies ...

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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... 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, fixed income ...

Human capital management a signal of overall sustainability: Lazard

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... affordable, and product liabilities. If you're a tech company, you have to worry about data security, cyber security, diversity of the workforce, which you can argue can be applied to all companies. But specifically companies that have to be consistently ...

AMP Capital regards long term impacts of COVID-19, climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... board and the ability to do crisis planning." This leads to AMP Capital's work on board construction and appropriate diversity, she noted.

Poor disclosure around labour hire workforce in listed companies: ACCR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... engagement and loyalty; loss of human and intellectual capital; reduced visibility of workforce composition, including diversity, and reduced workforce development, due to less access to training and skills acquisition. The impacts on workforce development ...

Hong Kong regulators establish sustainable finance steering group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... and accelerating green transition. "Hong Kong's green bond market saw another rewarding year in 2019, with increased diversity in product type and over half of issuers making their debut issuance here," said Darryl Chan, executive director (external) ...