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Green jobs: Societe Generale, Iress, U Ethical, CDP, TISFD

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... strategy, leadership, climate and sustainable finance. This comes as the social equivalent of the TCFD announced new co-chairs for its steering group. The Taskforce on Inequality and Social-related Financial Disclosures (TISFD) is the result of a 2023 ...

Glass ceiling persists despite record women chairs

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... Australia's top 20 firms are lagging, with industry groups saying reasons are unclear. There is a record number of female chairs at ASX 200 and 300 companies: in the ASX 300 there were 42 women chairs, and 25 on the ASX 200. Researchers from the Australian ...

DEI peak body firms up leadership

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... sustainability initiative for businesses in Australia, and a one-time UN Women advisor. She is a senior advisor at Accenture and co-chairs the tech council of Australia's media and marketing committee. She is an active member of Chief Executive Women ...

Social TCFD-equivalent seeks leaders

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... Taskforce on Inequality and Social-related Financial Disclosures (TISFD) seeks a director, a head of engagement, and four co-chairs for its working group. The TISFD is a Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)-equivalent for social ...

Rockefeller org picks climate advisers

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... private foundation has set up a new Climate Advisory Council to accelerate the just transition and named its inaugural co-chairs and members. The Rockefeller Foundation, the global philanthropic medical research and innovation institution, ranks as the ...

Why top firms have more women on boards: AICD

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... well." There is room for improvement regarding the percentage of women holding chair positions. There are only 19 women chairs on the ASX 200, and 34 on the ASX 300. There are no women chairs on the ASX 20. Chair of the 30% Club Australia Nicola Wakefield ...

Looking beyond the gender pay gap

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 29 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... of all managers. Women are also the minority in boards and governing bodies. 34% of board members are women, and 19% of chairs. 26% of boards do not have any women members at all. Just one-in-four (25%) boards are gender balanced, with at least 40% men ...

SIX launches share platform for investors, activists

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... listed companies," Verwey said. "We are currently running two campaigns on the platform - one on the forthcoming vote on the chairs of Santos and Woodside, and the other towards Woolworths and Coles to get them to stop sourcing their salmon from Macquarie ...

HESTA releases 2023 AGM hit list

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 25 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... will oppose select director re-elections at ASX 300 firms with less than 30% female representation on their boards and chairs of companies employing single-gender executive leadership teams. Its long-term goal is a 40:40:20 gender balance (40% women ...

Industy veterans named to sustainable finance taxonomy working group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... named former RBA deputy governor Guy Debelle and EY climate change and sustainability services partner Emma Herd as the co-chairs of the Taxonomy Technical Expert Group (TTEG). "It is imperative that we develop a sustainable finance taxonomy that is ...

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Santos receives takeover offer from Abu Dhabi-led consortium

ANDREW MCKEAN
Santos has received a non-binding $8.89 per share cash offer from the XRG Consortium, led by XRG P.J.S.C., a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ANDOC), alongside Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund ADQ and US private equity firm Carlyle.

What do the best-functioning boards look like?

KARREN VERGARA
The best-functioning boards are future thinkers, understand their ESG responsibilities and are able to show their "battle scars," according to two governance experts.

Funding lifts for climate, health, people startups

KARREN VERGARA
While funding for impact startups has broadly declined, those operating in climate, health and people has seen funding levels improve compared to three years ago, according to the Impact Startups Benchmark Report 2025.

Mind the gap: Investors' role in balancing fairness and competitiveness in executive pay

ALEXANDRE PROST
Investors have a significant role to play in helping to move the dial on executive remuneration, aiming to increase fairness and reduce inequality.

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