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Alphinity Investment Management launches SDG-linked equity fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
... predatory lending and hostile debt collection, and pornography. It will however invest in some companies in extractive industries, "as the provision of certain commodities are vital if you want to achieve sustainable development," Alphinity said. Alphinity ...

Diversity Council Australia discusses myths around workplace flexibility

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... is provided. 7. Flexibility doesn't work in our backyard There's a huge body of research that shows that across all industries, job levels, and job types, flexibility drives financial performance and productivity, is linked to increased revenue, and ...

Government finds no legislative barriers to implementing TCFD

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... interests of beneficiaries to undue risk stemming from matters such as a lack of diversification, where investment in some industries are excluded or a positive weighting is placed on certain nonfinancial factors as a result of ESG considerations." "We ...

Exploring the risks, impacts of future of work on investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... "There is a role for unions and the role of employers in ensuring that there is an orderly transition within various industries," Vamos said. "On a company by company basis, there's the issue of losing staff too quickly by 'abandoning the ship'. How ...

Deloitte survey finds procurement leaders lack visibility in supply chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... sustainability and responsibility issues including human rights," she said. "I think that's a good model for cooperation within industries and it's been going on for seven or eight years." Another issue raised by the report is the statistics that 51% ...

Sustainalytics outlines ten key global ESG risks for 2018

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2018  |  NEWS
... perspective. What we did was we reached out to our sector teams and asked everyone to think about key ESG risks facing their industries and we to back some really great ideas and topics." Climate change featured prominently on the list, unsurprisingly. ...

Australian banks, Fortescue Metals appear in Bloomberg Gender Equality Index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2018  |  NEWS
... in the 2018 GEI for their efforts to create work environments that support gender equality across a diverse range of industries," said Peter T. Grauer, chairman of Bloomberg and founding chairman of the U.S. 30% Club. "Their leadership sets an important ...

High to severe ESG incidents affect market capitalisation: Sustainalytics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017  |  NEWS
... approach and also examined 29,000 incidents between 2014 and 2016. The analysis covers 45 incident types, the most exposed industries and the countries at greatest risk. Australia has a higher than average number of incidents, and a higher amount of ...

Moving towards an Australian Modern Slavery Act: what does it mean for business?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2017  |  NEWS
... donations and giving by government and entities; and publishing a list of products or services, people groups, areas and industries with a high risk of modern slavery, both within Australia and internationally. Some multinational companies (MNCs) have ...

APRA encourages entities to perform stress-test for climate-related risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2017  |  NEWS
... heat map through the lens of prudential standard CPS220, identifying the key climate-related risks across each of the industries we regulate. APRA supervisors have begun to ask questions of regulated entities. Initially, these have related primarily ...