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Financial Services Council launches Principles of Internal Governance and Asset Stewardship Code

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUL 2017  |  NEWS
The Financial Services Council has launched its new Principles of Internal Governance and Asset Stewardship code, which will be mandatory for all members. Sally Loane, FSC CEOw Stewardship codes for asset management arose in response to the GFC. The ...

Colonial First State Global Asset Management publish stewardship report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUL 2017  |  NEWS
... Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFSGAM) have published their tenth annual Responsible Investment and Stewardship Report, benchmarking the asset manager's performance on a range of internal and external performance. Pablo Berrutti,head of ...

Regnan hires Pauline Vamos as CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUL 2017  |  NEWS
... (Australia) Limited. "I am excited to join Regnan and to have the opportunity to make a meaningful contribution to wealth stewardship, through the promotion of thoughtful, long-term and holistic risk management and corporate governance best practices," ...

New South Wales Treasury Corporation joins ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
... agencies, including state-owned corporations and local councils. "Through the establishment of our new Investment Stewardship Policy in late 2016, TCorp has recognised the importance of embedding ESG considerations into our investment processes," said ...

Asset owners identify economic inequality as rising investment risk at ACSI conference

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAY 2017  |  NEWS
... Emslie also noted that tax transparency is a rising governance issue, and for investment governance, the spread of Stewardship Codes is an issue as well. While the UK and Japan have implemented Stewardship Codes, Australia has not yet done so, and Emslie ...

Global sustainable, responsible, impact assets hit $22tr: GSIA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAR 2017  |  NEWS
... responsible investment strategies through financial markets, highlighting particularly Japan's implementation of its Stewardship Code. "I do think that there's still the regulatory side in Australia, where we're really behind other markets,"O'Connor ...

AIST appoints Eva Scheerlinck as acting chief executive officer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAR 2017  |  NEWS
... as acting CEO. Eva Scheerlinck, acting CEO, AIST Scheerlinck is currently AIST's executive manager, governance and stewardship, a role she has held since 2010. She will commence in her new role as acting CEO on March 10, 2017, when current CEO Tom Garcia ...

Putting Sustainable Beef on the Table

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2017  |  NEWS
... The Framework focuses on four key themes for industry disclosure: Animal Welfare, Economic Resilience, Environmental Stewardship, and People & the Community. Wide consultation has occurred with public comment now being sought. Of these criteria, given ...

Sustainalytics to augment Sydney office, launch Tokyo office

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2017  |  NEWS
... because of the quick and strong moves by the Japanese government, regulators and investment community to implement a Stewardship Code and Corporate Governance code, as well as significant moves by the Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) to embrace ...

Engagement a tool for investment stewardship: RIAA conference

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2016  |  NEWS
... Investment Fund (GPIF) of Japan, the Global Asset Owners Fund, to aid the GPIF in its obligations under the Japanese Stewardship Code. "I get the fact that you're great at engagement," Jantzi said. "You use a lot of wonderful tools, my only argument ...