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Social-washing hides lapse in progress

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 17 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... Investors for Impact. The investment community plays a crucial role in achieving SDGs by leveraging the power of capital markets, says the nation's peak body for impact investment. The SDG framework is increasingly being used by financial professionals ...

Investors worth $42trn target state leaders at COP29

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... zero economy or stay on the current trajectory of high-costs and lower economic growth. They pay attention to capital markets so now is the time for investors to join this call for the policies that will protect their economies."

Future Fund restructures investment leadership

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... design responsibilities that include alternatives, dynamic asset allocation, overlays and treasury, economics and capital markets, and portfolio integration teams. David Bluff and Tammi Fisher will be joint managing directors of real assets. Bluff will ...

Senate passes landmark climate reporting and net zero authority laws

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... these reports - and quality information really matters. Investors rely on information to make decisions about capital markets, and consumers and investors rely on that quality of information." "Our goal is to provide guidance and support. We recognise ...

S&P Global gains top sustainability expert

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... sustainability best practice and infrastructure planning, Lucchese has contributed to the EU Commission, the UK's Capital Markets Union, and the UN Global Compact's Cities Program. She is influential in the rapid evolution of responsible investment ...

Ex-Moody's chief rejoins standards setter

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... member of the World Bank Group, and the IFRS Foundation, recently signed an agreement to strengthen sustainable capital markets by improving sustainability and climate reporting in emerging markets and developing economies. More than half (55%) of the ...

Canberra scopes First Nations economic policy

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... consulting on the design of a First Nations Economic Partnership with Treasury. The aim is to improve access to capital markets and employment opportunities and address legislative or policy barriers that hinder that access. A key barrier to First Nations ...

One in three analyse physical climate risk: IGCC

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... a drop in the number of investors citing policy uncertainty as a barrier to investment. Top areas of focus in capital markets were: setting whole-of-portfolio interim targets, adaptation and resilience, analysing and acting on physical risk, improving ...

Standards boards unite for global rollout

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... said. The ISSB recently published a roadmap to help countries adopt its standards to support transparency for capital markets, regulators, and stakeholders. It builds on a preview of the jurisdictional adoption guide published in February. Servais said ...

Geostrategic risks in a changing world

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... weigh ethical responsibility with protecting against financial risk. While most geopolitical risks do not affect capital markets significantly, they do affect downstream supply chains which can have an impact on portfolios. Globalised supply chains mean ...