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Financial inclusion as risk and opportunity: Principal Financial Group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2022  |  NEWS
... terms of benefits packages for employees, including insurance, pensions, training. How people advance in terms of digital payments and how many people have access to bank accounts. You need to go more granular in terms of a countries perspective to understand ...

Climate change a macro trend, driving secular themes: J. P. Morgan Asset Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
... underprice a number of technology themes such as the adoption of cloud computing, digital transformation and electronic payments. "Meanwhile, we see a number of themes related to the growth of the middle class consumer in emerging markets, such as the ...

Alphinity launches SDG-aligned fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... management of ESG issues such as breaching human rights principles, unnecessary pollution or avoiding a fair share of tax payments. Alphinity uses ESG research provider, MSCI for their ESG ratings. Alphinity also uses a Sustainable Compliance Committee ...

ASX200 CEO pay drops to lowest levels in more than decade: ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... decade ago, in the shadows of the Global Financial Crisis, executives were being rewarded with bonuses and termination payments which were in direct contrast to the negative financial outcomes many companies were delivering to shareholders. "Since then ...

Assessing buy now pay later sector through an ESG lens

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... by Afterpay, BrightePay, Humm, Openpay, Payright and Zip Pay. The review found that one in five consumers are missing payments. In the 2018-19 financial year, missed payment fee revenue for all BNPL providers in the review totalled over $43 million ...

S&P Dow Jones launches new ESG indices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2021  |  NEWS
... that meet specific ESG criteria and have followed a managed-dividends policy for a specified number of years. "Dividend payments are often viewed as an important barometer of companies' financial health and outlooks," says Aye Soe, global head of product ...

ASX-listed mining, gas and oil companies lack tax transparency: PWYP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
ASX-listed mining, gas and oil companies are "falling behind key transparency measures" on disclosing payments to governments in countries in which they operate, according to new research from Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Australia. Robyn Parkin, sustainability ...

Human capital management a signal of overall sustainability: Lazard

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... Prudential Regulatory Authority in the United Kingdom, which "put pressure on banks and other companies to suspend dividend payments." The paper noted that the dividend future market is anticipating a 60% cut in dividend for European listed Companies ...

OHS, social license to operate identified as infrastructure risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... main, and they have to keep customers and employees safe. They are also implementing policies to assist customers with payments because people have lost jobs, there are people in hardship and in vulnerable positions, and they have donated to charities ...

Morningstar acquires outstanding majority of Sustainalytics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... cash payment at closing of approximately EUR 55 million (subject to certain potential adjustments) and additional cash payments in 2021 and 2022 based on a multiple of Sustainalytics' 2020 and 2021 fiscal year revenues. Based on the upfront consideration ...