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Opinion: 2021 Reboot: three ways to innovate for impact

WARWICK PEEL, GORDON NOBLE  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... superannuation capital. In the investment world, ESG is now widely understood. The shift of capital towards Environment, Social (dividends) and Governance has reached a stage of maturity with responsible investment funds outperforming significantly ...

Seeking financial, positive impact in SME investments: Beckon Capital

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... similar to venture capital or private equity, Moffitt added. "The vast majority will be cashflow positive, and supplying dividends," Moffitt said. "As we hold the asset thru that period, we expect to have dividends. The expected return is around 15% ...

ESG integration "crucial" to credit investments: Janus Henderson

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... trillion - 12% - in 2020 off the back of the COVID-19 pandemic. Companies borrowed to fund takeovers, share buybacks and dividends, as well as to invest, and debts have risen significantly faster than profits over the last five years, Janus Henderson ...

Human capital management a signal of overall sustainability: Lazard

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... sponsorship." This includes the risk of losing social license to operate, as well as risks to investors in terms of cuts to dividends, as well as regulatory and legislative responses to COVID-19 that impact on business operations. "How companies manage ...

OHS, social license to operate identified as infrastructure risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... donated to charities that are helping peoples most impacted in communities." This consideration extends to the payment of dividends, Myatt said. "We will see that a lot of these companies will have an increase in their working capital and in their bad ...

Questions raised over governance implications of share buyback schemes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... buybacks have become the favoured means for distributing cash to investors among large-cap U.S. companies, exceeding cash dividends every year since 1997 at 388 of the 610 companies in the study sample. The report examined buyback activity between 1997 ...

Investors considering their options in voting at Westpac AGM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... money was being channelled into child exploitation, and of course, concern over the share price and the impact on future dividends," Limmer said. "We're still finalising our voting intentions, which go out on our website." Limmer noted that ASA was set ...

Retail investors would accept lower returns for ethical performance: KPMG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
... responsibility." The report also found that a higher number of respondents - 72% - rated 'reputation' ahead of 'recent dividends', 69% when deciding which companies to invest in. Retail investors also said that executive remuneration is a major trigger ...

Examining the corporate governance implications of share buybacks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... their extra cash, they have two main options besides investing in capital improvements, R&D or M&A, and that's either dividends or repurchases," Marshall said. "One of the reasons for the decision to go for share buybacks versus dividends is that when ...

Brambles talks sustainability strategy, Sustainable Development Goals and natural capital

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 OCT 2017  |  NEWS
... constant currency, underlying profit was USS$957.5 million, down 1% at constant currency, and Brambles issued total dividends of AU$0.29/share for the full 2017 financial year. The goals in Brambles' sustainability programs are aligned to the United ...