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Advisers integrating positive impact into investment choices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... equities as well - he cited ETFs with ethical or sustainable strategies as an avenue because of their cost structure and transparency on underlying assets. Even if available options aren't a perfect fit, Zbik noted that clients accept that it is ...

Reflection on 10 years of climate action: ISS ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... combat climate change, according to ISS ESG managing director Max Horster. "What we observed is that despite the transparency conversation in the market, the progress is actually quite disappointing," Horster said. "It's not that all of a sudden ...

Supermarket giant inks $1.3bn sustainability-linked loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... four-year SLLs. The SLL "draws a direct line between our sustainability performance and our cost of capital, providing transparency and accountability," the company said, and follows the release of its full sustainability strategy in June 2021. The SLL ...

More companies reporting on SDGs, but climate clarity needed

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... Australia's top companies are still struggling with aligning their business strategies and their disclosures and the transparency and the assurance around that accountability to climate action is still murky." The report also found that governance and ...

Fund manager sets gender diversity target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... to help improve gender balance in investment management, through the introduction of additional accountability and transparency mechanisms to enable organisations to achieve their desired, self-nominated, gender diversity target. "There is no silver ...

ASIC reviewing greenwashing in financial products

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... for evaluating super funds and managed funds products on ESG grounds, and Dunnin noted that the real focus is on transparency, including portfolio holding disclosure. "Rainmaker's focus so far has been on ESG, not on being 'green'," Dunnin said. "In ...

Regulation needs to keep up with the rise of ethical investing: Hejaz Financial Services

HAKAN OZYON  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... products will enable financial advisers to communicate more clearly with customers and avoid any doubt. Increased transparency on ESG screens will also force advisers to consider customer needs properly and not simply guess what the customer wants. Worryingly ...

Profile: Fiona Reynolds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... implementation of a new reporting and assessment framework designed to improve accountability to the PRI, signatory transparency and signatory assessment. "When reporting was created, one of the things we wanted was it for it to be used such that asset ...

ASX in running to develop Australian carbon exchange

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... ASX spokesperson told FS Sustainability. "An exchange-traded market provides many benefits, including open access, transparency and liquidity. It can also provide robust price signals to support investment in carbon abatement activities. And clearing ...

ASX200 sexual harassment transparency needed: ACSI

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
Only 19% of ASX200 boards have primary accountability for preventing and responding to sexual harassment and it remains unclear who in the company holds accountability, new research shows. The report, Equality across the board: Investing in workplaces ...