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Are investors walking the walk when it comes to voting on biodiversity?

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2023  |  NEWS
... question whether investors are complying to ESG standards, and whether shareholders of these funds are being misled. The research analysed 26,587 votes on biodiversity-related shareholder resolutions on themes including deforestation, genetic materials ...

CSIRO to build Australia-first mobile hydrogen generator

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... to boost the development of a commercially viable hydrogen industry. The national science agency will collaborate with research and innovation provider Advanced Carbon Engineering to develop a demonstration unit based on proprietary technology that will ...

Investment opportunities in a changing global food system

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... system is vast, complex, inefficient and increasingly unfit for purpose," said Shehriyar Antia, PGIM's head of thematic research. "There is no question the food system is in the early stages of a generational transformation. It will need to grow more ...

AI and ESG: risk or opportunity?

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
The artificial intelligence (AI) revolution is already rapidly disrupting various industries, speeding up processes and making fast work of huge amounts of data, and investors and businesses need to analyse the material ESG risks and opportunities of ...

FS Sustainability launches inaugural ESG Power50

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... country." After gathering the long list of nominations, FS Sustainability worked with ISS ESG 1, a leading ESG rating and research company, to make sure that the nominees are employed at companies that meet minimum ESG criteria. "It is not mandatory ...

It pays to go green: top ETF megatrends for long-term growth

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... for renewables production and maintenance: copper, and lithium and battery tech. Minerals used in renewables Global X's research found that mining revenue for cleantech-related disruptive materials could grow from $41 billion in 2020 to $261 billion ...

RIAA launches armed conflict toolkit for investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... operating in fragile, conflict-prone places," said Måns Carlsson, chair of RIAA's Human Rights Working Group and head of ESG research, Ausbil Investment Management. "Once the conflict starts, it's often too late to come up and write and implement policies ...

Assessing the risks of psychosocial safety

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... which poses potential financial risks due to negative impacts on workers and costs associated with lost productivity. Research shows that finance industry and corporate environments, alongside healthcare, pose the highest risk for psychosocial safety. ...

Australian wellbeing hits record low

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... causing inflation to skyrocket, the downward trend of Australians' wellbeing was unsurprising," said Dr Kate Lycett, research fellow from the School of Psychology at Deakin University. "But what is surprising is that we didn't see this decline earlier. ...

30% women a minimum for boards under new ACSI policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... ASX300 companies advising them of the new policy. Recently, the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) released research finding that little more than 11% of ASX300 C-Suite executives are women. The latest AICD Gender Diversity Report revealed ...