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Juicing up gender equity with Orange Bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... solutions, to achieve the UN's 17 SDGs and build a more inclusive, climate-resilient future for all," said IIX founder and CEO Durreen Shahnaz. Last year, ANZ led the issuance of a $50 million four-year Women's Livelihood Bond 5 (WLB5), a gender-lens ...

Embedding mental health wellbeing into company culture

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... over the last ten years, we know there are critical environments that impact the mental health of young people," said batyr CEO Nic Brown. "The workplace is one of them. This report reveals that there is still a lot of work to be done to ensure mental ...

Leading Harvest launches Australian ag sustainability standard

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... were developed n the United States, did not need much modification to apply to Australia, said Leading Harvest president and CEO Kenny Fahey. "There is a lot of consistency between the US and Australia," Fahey said. "Part of the reason is that our standards ...

HSBC Australia hires head of sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... to the team and believe her diverse experience will assist us in furthering our sustainability focus," said HSBC Australia CEO Antony Shaw. "As a bank, we are committed to ensure we are operating sustainably across all communities we operate in, while ...

Resource-efficient companies more resilient: Impax AM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... expected to prove more resilient even during more a more challenging macroeconomic backdrop, according to the founder and CEO of Impax Asset Management. Ian Simm was recently in Australia and spoke with FS Sustainability about themes including how EU ...

Activist investor launches Santos campaign

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... one-year, two-year and 10-year time frame." Snowcap pointed to the one-off $6 million Growth Projects Inventive awarded to CEO Kevin Gallagher in 2021. "In order to address Santos' underperformance and discounted valuation, Snowcap is calling for ...

First Super taps IFM Investors for ESG mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... on labour rights in particular the back of a number of controversies in Australia over the last decade," said First Super CEO Bill Watson, "Whether it's Dominos and underpayment of workers, 7-11, Qantas contracting out pretty much all of its services ...

Cybersecurity tops ESG priorities for ASX companies: Perennial

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... They're all really important positions, but are they going to have P&L accountability and are they going to go to the role of CEO?" O'Neill also flagged that biodiversity is an issue that is rapidly rising up the agenda for ASX-listed companies, a topic ...

Exploding the glass cliff myth

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
Underperforming companies that appoint a woman as CEO are more likely to generate shareholder return, while male appointments are more likely to continue the underperformance, according to research from RealIndex. Realindex noted that CEO appointments ...

Stafford Capital Partners launches sustainable timber impact fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2023  |  NEWS
... of the forestry activity with carbon offset activity is aimed at strengthening that return, said Stafford Capital Partners CEO Angus Whiteley. "Our strategy is underpinned by commercial forestry activity - to plant trees, grow trees and harvest and sell ...