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DEI winner takes home top prize

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2024  |  NEWS
... enterprise that employs refugee and migrant women has won the National Banksia Award; it's the first time a nomination in the DEI category has taken out the top sustainability prize. The fashion house The Social Outfit provides employment and training ...

Industry unveils plan to boost female executives

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... teams can add 45 basis points annually in net excess returns. All global and domestic fund managers surveyed wanted to improve DEI in their investment teams, the research found. Almost all (94%) said they tracked gender statistics within their organisation ...

Looking beyond the gender pay gap

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 29 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... it. "Women are typically expected to make greater career sacrifices to have children," Sarah Liu, founder and director of DEI consultancy TDC Global said. During child-rearing years, women are more likely to work part-time, and more likely to take on ...

Social and governance factors top "new risk reality"

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 30 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... due to an increasingly volatile risk picture that threatens to disrupt business. Topics like cyber and information security, DEI and anti-bribery are putting pressure on companies to take a structured approach to business continuity and build resilience," ...

Podcast: Does DEI improve financial return - Raymone Jackson

THE GREENER WAY  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... "rapidly becoming the next frontier in ensuring sound governance and risk culture practices," Rowell said in a speech."Effective DEI practices support a more resilient financial services sector by strengthening governance and risk management and providing ...

Gender pay gap a key diversity metric: FSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 30 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... gender pay gap highlights what happens when regulators, legislators and investors focus on disclosure and engagement around a DEI issue. "It also shows that what gets measured gets managed," White said. "Board gender diversity has been addressed in most ...

Cleaning up diversity-washing boosts business performance

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 3 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
Financy, creator of the Financy Women's Index, recently launched anti-DEI-washing app Impacter to help businesses self-assess, improve business outcomes, and move towards best practice on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). The new cloud-based ...

Outgoing APRA deputy governor calls for greater board diversity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... institutions prudently. Rowell flagged that while at the moment, APRA raises awareness around diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) DEI, "we are also considering how we can strengthen this aspect of governance and risk management as part of upcoming ...

Podcast: Is biodiversity "the new climate change"?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2023  |  NEWS
Deirdre Cooper, head of sustainable equity within the multi-asset team at global fund manager Ninety One, joins us to talk about how to invest in the transition to a low-carbon economy, why biodiversity isn't the new climate change, and how Ninety One ...

Gap in financing solutions for refugees: ISS ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
... supporting refugees has cross-applying benefits because supporting refugees often improves Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) performance, a key driver of overall ESG performance." ISS owns Rainmaker Group, publisher of FS Sustainability, as well ...