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Guide to assist financial sector in Modern Slavery risk management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... indicators of exploitation is a key role for the financial sector. Brodie pointed to anti-money laundering and anti-corruption processes that financial institution put in place to monitor transactions that are linked to bad actors, and said that similar ...

The conundrum of ESG in emerging markets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... see that they are, for example, providing remedial action to correct a past incident or if we gain comfort that some corruption allegations have been officially cleared. If the company is actively taking care of these problems, we will gain comfort and ...

Investing for the day after tomorrow: Janus Henderson

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... with the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, and they avoid investing in companies that are associated with corruption or doing business with oppressive regimes. "More and more companies are shifting in the sustainability direction," Seery ...

Vanguard expands Ethically Conscious product range

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... contravenes the principles of the UN Global Compact pertaining to labour rights, human rights, environment and anti-corruption. Its benchmark is the FTSE Australia 300 Choice index, and the management expense ratio of for the fund is 0.20% and 0.16% ...

Australian business environment amongst world's most resilient: FM Global

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... Australia was recognised for its strength in a number of drivers related to supply chain resilience including control of corruption (ranked 14), supply chain visibility (ranked 22) and quality of infrastructure (ranked 31). "There are a number of drivers ...

ASX-listed mining, gas and oil companies lack tax transparency: PWYP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... the 2014 Summit, was a key outcome for the Australian Presidency. In May 2016 the government announced at the UK Anti-Corruption Summit that it would explore, via public consultation, options for a beneficial ownership register for companies." Implementing ...

Three lessons when assessing ESG risks: Insight Investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... corporate governance Provider 3 The picture was uniformly negative. This included concerns about audits, internal controls, corruption, anti-competitive behaviours. The data was markedly more extensive and detailed than that provided by the other data ...

UN GCNA appoints Pru Bennett to board of directors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... leaders on key issues such as sustainable development, climate change, human rights, modern slavery and anti-bribery/corruption." Bennett was managing director at Blackrock and head of the Blackrock group investment stewardship team for the APAC region ...

Sustainability faces greatest test in response to coronavirus

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... on mitigating the risk of the pandemic on operations in a manner that does not increase the prevalence of bribery or corruption." Petersen calls sustainability professionals the "linchpin" to the company. "If you are there for embedding sustainability ...

Climate change, modern slavery on ESG engagement agenda: Ausbil

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
... standard around the world, so we'll look at that." The circular economy, data privacy and cybersecurity, and bribery and corruption risk will also be issues under consideration for Ausbil, plus sexual harassment in workplaces. "Sexual harassment - that's ...