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Australian Sustainable Finance Initiative sets ambitious investment agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
... financial markets and products; 3. Ensure better informed financial decision making by enhancing disclosures and transparency on environmental, social and governance risks and opportunities; and 4. Deliver a financial system that meets community expectations ...

Dhaka, Colombo stock exchanges launch guides for sustainability reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
... opportunity, it's a business necessity," said Tim Mohin, GRI chief executive. "Reporting on their impacts promotes transparency, which in turn helps them anticipate risks and informs decision making." These new guides for Sri Lanka and Bangladesh will ...

UBank launches world first certified Green Term Deposit

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
... chief product innovation officer at UBank. "Pursuing the certification was important to us in order to give customers transparency. CBI will essentially conduct a third party audit and validate the funds are being distributed accordingly." The UBank ...

Climate change, modern slavery on ESG engagement agenda: Ausbil

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
... their portfolios by using a proprietary risk assessment tool, using parameters including the Global Slavery Index, Transparency International and other frameworks. "That helps us to identify the companies we should be identifying in terms of engagements ...

Investec Asset Management launches Global Environment Strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
... portfolio at the moment, managed with a five-year plus horizon, and the importance of that is engagement and impact and transparency right at the top." The strategy seeks to invest in companies around three broad themes - "first, by providing access ...

Human rights, trust, climate risk top sustainability agenda for 2019

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... businesses will be more reporting on human rights exposures. Australian businesses in 2019 will have to provide more transparency into their human rights obligations. This is as a result of the legislation for the modern slavery bill. Although some Australian ...

Potentially hazardous ingredients in consumer products as investment risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2018  |  NEWS
... we expected, in terms of how they're performing." ISF has recommended that consumer product manufacturers improve transparency in their ingredients list. "That is something that I think in future will become more and more important, because companies ...

Companies engage with material human rights issues: BCSD Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
... within the human rights domain. For example, modern slavery and human trafficking are the key topics of the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act and the UK Modern Slavery Act." The report also references the foreshadowed Australian Modern Slavery ...

Cbus becomes Australian Asset Owner Stewardship Code signatory

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... of their stewardship practices." The code is intended to provide superannuation funds with a means to demonstrate transparency and accountability. Cbus is a profit to member superannuation fund managing more than $47 billion on behalf of 780,000 members. ...

New Forests joins World Business Council on Sustainable Development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... We've been very active in terms of certification thru the [Forest Stewardship Council] FSC. We've brought much more transparency in terms of impact reporting across the sustainable framework. I think we have got some ideas that can be brought to the ...

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Santos receives takeover offer from Abu Dhabi-led consortium

ANDREW MCKEAN
Santos has received a non-binding $8.89 per share cash offer from the XRG Consortium, led by XRG P.J.S.C., a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ANDOC), alongside Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund ADQ and US private equity firm Carlyle.

What do the best-functioning boards look like?

KARREN VERGARA
The best-functioning boards are future thinkers, understand their ESG responsibilities and are able to show their "battle scars," according to two governance experts.

Funding lifts for climate, health, people startups

KARREN VERGARA
While funding for impact startups has broadly declined, those operating in climate, health and people has seen funding levels improve compared to three years ago, according to the Impact Startups Benchmark Report 2025.

Mind the gap: Investors' role in balancing fairness and competitiveness in executive pay

ALEXANDRE PROST
Investors have a significant role to play in helping to move the dial on executive remuneration, aiming to increase fairness and reduce inequality.

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