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Gender pay gaps "sabotage" diversity, profits: UniSA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... technology and industrials, and the three industries with the smallest gender pay gaps are health care, financials and consumer staples. "Women have done fantastically well to achieve executive roles," Gould said. "If that's not enough to take care of ...

Serving up meat's sustainability risks, opportunities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... change in their positioning and stance," said Peter van der Werf, a Robeco engagement specialist, covering the consumer staples, healthcare and chemicals. "Where they were very defensive, very closed off early on in our engagement, they have to a certain ...

Global impact bond issuance spike in 2020

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... $100billion mark for annual issuance. Utilities issued US$57billion, up 18% on 2019. Other sectors fell back: by 50% in consumer staples and 35% in energy. On a sector basis, most issuance originated from France - 18% of the overall total. Germany and ...

Women continue to see gains on ASX200 boards: AICD

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... sectors within the cohort have an average of 30% or more women on boards - financials at 40%, healthcare at 44%consumer staples t 57% and utilities at 50%. Industrials and information technology have the fewest, with zero women on boards in both of those ...

KPMG outlines focus on gender diversity in ASX201-300 company boards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... sectors within the cohort have an average of 30% or more women on boards - financials at 40%, healthcare at 44%consumer staples t 57% and utilities at 50%. Industrials and information technology have the fewest, with zero women on boards in both of those ...

Climate change, ageing population to cause twin impacts: Actuaries Institute

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
... 2050 are all negative except for renewables, infrastructure, and minor positives for materials, telecoms and consumer staples. In 3C and 4C scenarios, all sectors, apart from renewables, have negative return impacts to 2030, 2050 and 2100, with return ...

40% of ASX200 fall short of the carbon reduction requirements: MSCI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... that faced the greatest exposure to carbon related regulatory penalties were utilities, energy, health care and consumer staples. Conversely, the sectors with the least burden across all regulatory scenarios were the consumer discretionary, telecommunication ...

SSGA launches tobacco, controversial weapons-free global equities fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2016  |  NEWS
... said. "We thought, could we remove these [tobacco] securities and then compensate by adjusting to include other consumer staples, so you could compare the fund to an unconstrained index and not see much difference," Shead said. "But the performance of ...

Controlled companies underperformed non-controlled firms: IRRCi

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... controlled companies are in three sectors - 40% in consumer discretionary, 16.2% in industrials and 12.4% in consumer staples. The study also found that controlled companies underperform non-controlled firms on one-, three-, five- and 10-year periods ...

Byrne: Investors' ESG risk awareness increase biggest change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... publication of the third ACSI research paper into labour and human rights supply chain policies in ASX-listed consumer staples and consumer discretionary companies. This evolution has manifested in incremental changes in companies' activities - such ...