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Using ESG signals part of shorting strategy: Plato Investment Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
... which is not own high polluting names, which is great, but it takes you out of the debate with senior management at the different corporations because you're no longer on the shareholder register. "On the other hand, if you're actively going short with ...

CFOs see ESG action as central: Deloitte

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
A strong majority of Australian CFOs say that ESG activities are driven by investor or shareholder demands, but say that measuring return on ESG action is a top barrier to doing more, according to research from Deloitte. Deloitte's most recent CFO ...

Bank Australia taps NAB executive as chief impact officer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
Bank Australia has created the role of chief impact officer and hired a former NAB exec to fill the position. As chief impact officer, Sasha Courville will lead the sustainability, impact, strategic planning, corporate affairs and marketing teams at ...

EY launches Net Zero Centre

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 7 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
... should I really be worried about it? For some, climate change might be a longer term issue,or it might be a slightly different issue." Comley noted that the challenges for companies in emissions intensive sectors differ from those that are not as emissions ...

Leading Harvest to bring ag sustainability standard to Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
... standard has previously been tested in the United States, with 1.3 million acres (526,000 hectares) representing 90 different crop types in various regions across the country. Leading Harvest is working with inaugural pilot program participants Manulife ...

Super funds react to Rio report into bullying, sexism, racism

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
... report also found racism is common across a number of areas, including indications that people working in a country different to their birth experienced high rates of racism, and that 39.8% of men and 31.8% of women who identify as Aboriginal or Torres ...

Robeco outlines four themes for 2022 engagement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
... looking at what are the challenges in the sector." "This topic is earlier in the development of issues and the data is different levels," he said. "You need data gathering and speaking about how companies can incorporate this in their strategy and how ...

Australian Ethical launches high conviction ETF

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 1 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
Australian Ethical has become the latest fund manager to foray into exchange traded products, launching an active ethical ETF. The High Conviction Fund ETF (ticker: AEAE) is an actively managed portfolio of 20 to 35 companies primarily drawn from the ...

Plato Investment Management launches net zero hedge fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2022  |  NEWS
... some 60 environmental inputs, plays a major role in portfolio construction. "We check companies for a whole range of different signals using multiple data sources, which alone aren't that powerful, but when they emerge together in numbers, we know we ...

Solving renewable energy challenges with technology investment: Quinbrook

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 27 JAN 2022  |  NEWS
... with renewables. "We have been studying the algorithmic optimisation for about four years, and we looked at about 15 different vendors around the world," Scaysbrook said. "[Habitat Energy] have been consistently outperforming others. The quality of the ...