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Super funds ESG options underweight BHP, overweight CSL: Rainmaker Information

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... their portfolio holdings disclosures." "Let's remember that doing this requires funds to consolidate underlying holdings data across dozens of investment managers, across multiple complex asset classes," he said. "The holdings regulations being vague ...

Casting a wide net: ending modern slavery in fisheries

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... with the best practices laid out in the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. Observer Program and collecting data at sea Various programs place trained fishery Observers on board vessels for monitoring control and surveillance (MCS) of ...

140 years to gender parity in finance: OMFIF

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... mentorship programmes, or policies to ensure equal pay. The report calls for more transparent hiring processes, diversity data transparency, and mentorship programmes to overcome the barriers of the "childcare tax" and cultural biases. The "childcare ...

Government to fund sustainable finance taxonomy development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... support this important work," Herd said. "A Sustainable Finance Taxonomy will help build consistent definitions, tools, and data points to accelerate the movement of capital into real world outcomes. By defining what sustainability is, Australia's financial ...

Sustainability is facing a data crisis: new research

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2023  |  NEWS
Inadequate data, fear of greenwashing and economic pressures is stalling progress on sustainability, according to a new study from Google Cloud. The study, conducted by The Harris Poll, found that greater accountability, better measurement and management ...

Executive directors overwhelmingly male: AICD

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... Brunel University and Loughborough University in the UK looked at "environmental, social and governance (ESG) decoupling" data across 14 years and found that boardrooms with more equal gender representation were less prone to greenwashing. A 2020 study ...

Businesses back stronger Modern Slavery Act

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... on products that are made with forced labour. "The shift to mandatory human rights due diligence will demand substantial, data-driven, due diligence actions, with timing horizons that extend well beyond individual reporting periods," FairSupply said. ...

ESG goes mainstream: How the role has changed and what lies ahead

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 4 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... teams to understand the financial meaning of environmental, and social impact. Central to this quest is ensuring that ESG data is accurate and quantifiable, and translatable into monetary terms so that business leaders, stakeholders, and investors can ...

CEFC doubles investment in Artesian bond fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... existing portfolios, with annual assessment of changes to reporting frameworks and support for issuers in providing quality and data driven climate related disclosures. In addition to the CEFC's expanded investment, Australian private impact investment ...

Investors flag decarbonisation, real world impacts as priorities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... actively engaged with members of the secretariat within TNFD and a number of our clients are involved with it," Moret said. "The data on the biodiversity side is even more challenging, primarily because much of the data isn't being disclosed, and ...