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Vision Super in hot water over coal investment

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... Whitehaven Coal stocks after walking back its fossil fuel exclusion policy last year. The super fund changed its environmental, social and governance policy, removing its revenue-based coal, oil and gas investment restrictions and replacing them with ...

Podcast: Beyond ESG - UN PRI stewardship and engagement initiatives with David Atkin

THE GREENER WAY  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
Enhancing sustainability and incorporating environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) matters into investment decision-making and ownership practices can be a vast and overwhelming task. To get the job done right, it is a path that no responsible ...

Demand for human rights solutions intensifies

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
Ahead of launch in September, the social equivalent of the TCFD has unveiled its key functions as a UN body turns the spotlight on passive funds to do more on human rights. The UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights says investors must engage ...

Gender gap to close in 134 years: World Economic Forum

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
The World Economic Forum released its Global Gender Gap Report for 2024 revealing that, at the current pace, it will take another 134 years - equivalent to five generations - to achieve full gender parity. Globally, the gender gap has closed by just ...

Social TCFD-equivalent seeks leaders

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
The Taskforce on Inequality and Social-related Financial Disclosures (TISFD) seeks a director, a head of engagement, and four co-chairs for its working group. The TISFD is a Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)-equivalent for social ...

ASFA partners with First Nations Foundation

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has announced a new learning partnership with First Nations Foundation (FNF) to deliver cultural competency training for members. This new partnership will give ASFA members access to FNF's culture ...

UBS nabs ex-UOB sustainability lead

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
Global financial services firm UBS has named Jiayun Fang as Southeast Asia social impact and philanthropy lead, group sustainability and impact. Fang has a background in sustainability, social impact, corporate philanthropy, diversity and inclusion ...

Active Super found guilty of greenwashing

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
Active Super has been found guilty of misleading the public with false claims about its environmental, social, and governance (ESG) credentials. The profit-to-member fund, which is set to merge with Vision Super in March 2025, made claims on its website ...

abrdn strengthens sustainability function

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... in what is a complex area, as the most important issues always are. I've also long admired the work done by abrdn around social policy, and I am excited to get started." Moody will chair the new executive sustainability committee. She joined in 2023 ...

Australian Ethical updates investment guide

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... Australian Ethical also added that its ethical criteria may change in response to technological and scientific developments, social and other changes in the world. "We may develop new criteria and change existing criteria. For example, the emergence ...