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Cleaning up diversity-washing boosts business performance

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 3 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
Financy, creator of the Financy Women's Index, recently launched anti-DEI-washing app Impacter to help businesses self-assess, improve business outcomes, and move towards best practice on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). The new cloud-based ...

Outgoing APRA deputy governor calls for greater board diversity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... institutions prudently. Rowell flagged that while at the moment, APRA raises awareness around diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) DEI, "we are also considering how we can strengthen this aspect of governance and risk management as part of upcoming ...

Podcast: Is biodiversity "the new climate change"?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2023  |  NEWS
Deirdre Cooper, head of sustainable equity within the multi-asset team at global fund manager Ninety One, joins us to talk about how to invest in the transition to a low-carbon economy, why biodiversity isn't the new climate change, and how Ninety One ...

Gap in financing solutions for refugees: ISS ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
... supporting refugees has cross-applying benefits because supporting refugees often improves Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) performance, a key driver of overall ESG performance." ISS owns Rainmaker Group, publisher of FS Sustainability, as well ...

Michelle Baltazar awarded CEW leadership scholarship

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2021  |  NEWS
Chief Executive Woman (CEW) have named Rainmaker Group executive director - media Michelle Baltazar one of two inaugural recipients of a scholarship designed to inspire Australian women leaders working in media. Baltazar, who is also the editor-in-chief ...

Fostering equity, inclusion key to diversity gains: Regnan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... than on the candidates it seeks to appoint and retain, Regnan found in a report examining diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in companies. "We have a lot of conversations with companies, including company directors, over many, many years, and we were ...

Neuberger Berman joins global diversity initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... framework is deeply aligned with our own goals." ILPA's Diversity in Action Initiative asks participants to take concrete DEI actions spanning talent management, investment management and industry engagement. At Neuberger Berman, these actions are ...

Fund supports deidentified recruitment

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
Future Super, the $1 billion ethical retail fund, has shared how its deidentified recruitment has helped boost diversity - after mixed results last year. Future Super head of group strategy Veronica Sherwood-Meares said on LinkedIn that Future Super ...

Investing in the low-carbon transition: Ninety One

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
Global investors have a role to play in engaging with companies to manage their climate change risks as well as investing in decarbonisation-exposed companies, according to Ninety One. Listed companies have to spend more on managing climate change and ...

Global stimulus an opportunity for sustainable investment: Ninety One

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
Global post-COVID 19 stimulus packages present opportunities for outperformance of companies that are aligned with decarbonising the global economy, according to global fund manager Ninety One. Deirdre Cooper, portfolio manager, Ninety One Deirdre Cooper ...