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Governance key concern for AGM season: Dimensional Fund Advisors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... existing shareholders' economic and voting interests. "We advocated for enhanced disclosure requirements and improved transparency. The ASX subsequently announced tighter rules on the allocation process, including requiring companies to specify what ...

BlackRock details engagement activity in stewardship report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... expectations and how that translates back to voting actions, as well as the obvious need for ourselves to improve our own transparency into our own activities." Davila calls BlackRock's stewardship an evolution that changes as the concept of best practice ...

Investors to develop tool to measure biodiversity impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... water, cities, climate, oceans and land The investors recognize that much more needs to be done to promote corporate transparency on nature-related dependencies and impacts. The signatories also acknowledge that "many challenges remain to capture nature's ...

Three lessons when assessing ESG risks

JOSHUA KENDALL  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... negatively on 'key issue' index for governance risk factors such as financial system stability, accounting and financial transparency. The combination of strongly negative accounting/controversy flags from one data provider (which is unusual for the ...

Opinion: Australian super funds could benefit from US ESG policy move

RAEWYN WILLIAMS  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... and tilts on equity portfolios (as opposed to fully integrated, actively researched ESG insights), with reporting transparency, without fee increases. Nor does influence of companies through proxy voting necessarily come with a cost. However, Australian ...

Global sustainability standards bodies launch shared vision, goals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... action by users of information," the organisations said. The individual organisations spoke of the value of increased transparency. "As GRI, we believe strongly in a vision of a single, coherent global set of reporting standards, and will be working ...

GreenCollar secures funding for Queensland carbon farming projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... deployment of things like the Accounting for Nature framework, and bringing the same assurance, integrity, measurement and transparency to other ecosystem services that we do to carbon."

CFA Institute developing disclosure standards for ESG products

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... standard to establish disclosure standards for investment products with ESG related features, to bring about greater transparency and comparability by assisting asset manages to clearly communicate the ESG features of their investment products," Carroll ...

Capacity, resilience and interdependency key engagement topics: Regnan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... frequency of disclosure of the impact of those activities as well," Ewings said. "Our focus on that is around the transparency, so that as a prospective investor, you have an idea of what the delta might be achieved. While there are privacy limitations ...

ASX-listed mining, gas and oil companies lack tax transparency: PWYP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
ASX-listed mining, gas and oil companies are "falling behind key transparency measures" on disclosing payments to governments in countries in which they operate, according to new research from Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Australia. Robyn Parkin, sustainability ...