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Glass Lewis acquires investment stewardship platform

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
Global corporate governance data provider Glass Lewis has acquired a Stockholm-based technology platform to enhance institutional-level investment stewardship data and workflows. Purchasing Esgaia will accelerate Glass Lewis' strategy to more holistically ...

Future IM/Pact expands partnerships, appoints chair

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
Future IM/Pact has expanded its private wealth partnerships with the addition of four financial institutions, while also welcoming a new chair of the advisory board. Morgan Stanley, Morgans Financial, Evans & Partners, and Canaccord Genuity have joined ...

Woodside investors urged to sack the board over dud returns

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... Woodside has made no material change to its strategy in response to these votes. This raises serious questions about governance," Hillman said. Hillman concluded that the ACCR sees little evidence Woodside's board has shown an appetite for the kind of ...

CFA Institute scrubs 'ESG' from ESG certificate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... underpins the certificate will continue to cover "the wide variety of factors within each of the environmental, social, and governance areas of ESG investing." "As a part of this change, CFA Institute will update the name on the digital certificate and ...

Renewable infra project contractor breaches workplace laws

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
Construction contractor Elecnor, which was engaged in the construction of an electric transmission line between the power grids of South Australia, Victoria, and NSW, has been found to have contravened the Fair Work Act, the Federal Court has ruled. ...

Deputy chair appointed to ARENA board

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... energy Chris Bowen said. At the end of 2024 the government amended ARENA's legislation to strengthen its independent governance, reinstate its guaranteed statutory funding and establish ARENA as a delivery agency for its Future Made in Australia Innovation ...

Advertisers to adhere to new Environmental Claims Code

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
This month marked the introduction of the Australian Association of National Advertisers' (AANA) Environmental Claims Code, another weapon in the fight against greenwashing. Effective March 1, advertisers and marketers across Australia must apply ...

US rejects SDGs, Agenda 2030

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... "globalist endeavours". "Although framed in neutral language, Agenda 2030 and the SDGs advance a program of soft global governance that is inconsistent with US sovereignty and adverse to the rights and interests of Americans," Heartney said. "In the ...

SSGA abandons gender diversity targets

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) has ditched its gender diversity efforts eight years after it championed the Fearless Girl campaign, which pushed for the representation of women in senior leadership positions. SSGA previously pushed for listed companies ...

Board directors targeted by APRA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... superannuation trustees, insurers, and banks are on notice, with APRA proposing changes to "strengthen and streamline" governance requirements. The regulator has released eight proposals in what marks the first "significant update" of its governance ...