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Modern slavery, Indigenous heritage, climate change top agenda: Paradice IM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
... engagement tools for meeting with company management, aligning materiality issues to the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) framework. Varcoe points to the issues of modern slavery, safety, protection of Indigenous heritage and climate ...

Northern Trust AM names head of sustainable investing and stewardship

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
... well as a founding member of the One Planet Asset Manager Initiative. NTAM is also a Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) Investors Advisory Group Member and an official supporter of the Financial Stability Board. Moret will oversee the firm's ...

ASX companies under the spotlight for global investor engagement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... guidelines in the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) reporting guidelines. "The reason for that is, we're looking at climate risk at that as a financial risk and from the ...

BlackRock seeks plans for company transition to net zero

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), which covers a broader set of material sustainability factors," Fink said. "We are greatly encouraged by the progress ...

International sustainability accounting standards bodies to merge

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
The International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) and the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) will merge into one organisation by mid-2021. The resulting entity, the Value Reporting Foundation, will provide investors and companies with ...

Global sustainability standards bodies launch shared vision, goals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... Reporting Initiative (GRI), the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) and the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) have published a common statement on what they view as the elements necessary to develop both financial accounting ...

SASB, GRI announce collaborative workplan for further understanding

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) have announced a collaborative workplan to drive understanding of how the standards can be used concurrently. In its initial phase, the collaboration will ...

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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... Global Advisors' R-Factor integrates multiple data sources and is built utilising the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) materiality framework. The fund manager uses SASB's Materiality Map to generate a unique ESG score for listed companies. ...

Human capital management a signal of overall sustainability: Lazard

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... identifying what are the most material issues." Lazard supports companies reporting via the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) guidelines and the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). "We support - SASB and TCFD, because ...

State Street Global Advisors launch Climate ESG International Equity Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... system, R-Factor. R-Factor integrates multiple data sources and is built utilising the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) materiality framework. The fund manager uses SASB's Materiality Map to generate a unique ESG score for listed companies. ...