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ANZ augments sustainable finance team

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
... Royal Bank of Scotland and GE Capital. He started in his new role in March. Simon Reid has been named director, based in Melbourne, and joins from ANZ Group Treasury. Reid has 18 years of banking experience, most recently as director, group funding ...

Forrest and US government back First Nations start-ups

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUN 2023  |  NEWS
... American investors and leaders in the US investment ecosystem. The Australian delegates are from Perth, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Darwin, Cairns, and Kempsey. Ten American investors will also travel to locations throughout Australia in late 2023 to ...

Aussie start up secures Japanese investor for seaweed production

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... aquaculturalists Scott Elliott and Dr John Statton, the company currently employs 15-20 staff. Other investors include Melbourne property developer Michael Drapac, and a number of other high net worth individuals from the mining sector in WA who have ...

RIAA launches armed conflict toolkit for investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... toolkit to help investors engage on the issue. RIAA launched the armed conflict toolkit at their recent conference in Melbourne. FS Sustainability was the media partner to the event. There is no one, blanket definition of armed conflict, but under international ...

Assessing the risks of psychosocial safety

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... corporate environments, alongside healthcare, pose the highest risk for psychosocial safety. At the RIAA Conference in Melbourne last week, Rod Gutierrez, vice president of health and hygiene at BHP, defined psychosocial safety as applying a risk lens ...

Are companies drowning in a sea of ESG requests?

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... and processes in place that won't distract from achieving the best ESG outcomes. At the RIAA Conference held in Melbourne last week, panellists discussed how better collaboration and deeper engagement by investors can help improve ESG metrics and ...

Could the anti-woke movement take hold in Australia?

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... in the US. The past 12 months have seen pushback against ESG, particularly in the US. At the RIAA conference held in Melbourne this week, investment and political science experts discussed whether this could occur here in Australia, and what this means ...

No pause button on greenwashing action: ASIC

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... institutions in Australia. "Greenwashing is a corrosive agent to carbon abatement," Chester said at the RIAA Conference in Melbourne on Wednesday. FS Sustainability is the official media partner to the event. According to Bloomberg, ESG assets are projected ...

Is divestment the last resort for modern slavery?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... to stay engaged. Speaking at the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) RI Australia 23 conference in Melbourne, Tomoya Obokata, special rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery at the United Nations noted that modern slavery is still ...

Government advisors call for investment in circular economy

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... council in the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDNS), chair of the Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Melbourne Water, and ClimateWorks Australia, is also chair of the Ministerial Advisory. He said there was a need for more fiscal ...