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Coca Cola, WWF-Australia, farmers mark 10 years of Project Catalyst

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2018  |  NEWS
... than 130 Queensland sugarcane farmers are participating in a partnership between Coca-Cola and the World Wide Fund for Nature Australia (WWF-Australia), which provides funding to study innovative and more sustainable farming techniques to positively ...

Core Civic, GEO Group flagged for ESG controversies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... exposures." Both GEO Group and Core Civic have been rated poorly for employee health and safety as well, given the higher risk nature of prison security as well as allegations of understaffing at both companies, she added. MSCI shares its reports with ...

Expert panel discusses growth of Australia's impact investing market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... the strategy, agreed. "That's definitely a common theme for impact investment," she said. "It has to be tailored to the nature of the investment and what it's doing," she said. "The way we do it is that when we meet with a company and when we understand ...

Rosenberg Equities to manage $1bn ESG mandate for CalPERS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... high earnings quality. The strategy further integrates ESG factors, as AXA IM believes that ESG information is economic in nature as it helps orient toward companies that are using their resources well (human, physical, technological). This strategy ...

Listed franchise companies facing structural reform risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... regulatory imbalances hard-wired into the franchising system," in their view it is unlikely that the incidents are sporadic in nature or limited just to the franchisees named in the submissions. "The fact that the Joint Committee has had to write formally ...

Investors, credit ratings agencies grapple with ESG impacts on ratings: PRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... bullet to identify the right time horizon over which to assess ESG factors in credit risk analysis." The "multi-dimensional nature of ESG factors, difficulties in modelling and capturing data interdependencies were cited among the biggest obstacles to ...

Australian Millennials question business motivations, ethics: Deloitte

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
... flexibility and a positive work culture are key to millennial loyalty; and young workers feel unprepared for the changing nature of work. "Biz leaders should be very concerned, and they ignore input from this survey at their peril," Brown said. "We are ...

Responsible investment to become "the new normal": AXA IM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
... developing ways to finance sustainable growth, with the European Commission establishing a list of key actions to change the nature of responsible investment, including establishing an EU classification system for sustainable activities, creating standards ...

Government finds no legislative barriers to implementing TCFD

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... consistently been that the corporations act is more than capable of not only catering for climate related financial risks of the nature considered under the TCFD, but mandates it as would any other foreseeable financial risk," Barker said. "Now that ...

Deloitte survey finds procurement leaders lack visibility in supply chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... said. "Businesses are always making new deals and arrangements. The ongoing work of procurement teams is to understand the nature of these risks. But let's say you do identify risks. My general preference would be to see companies working with suppliers ...