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ESG in 2024: key trends and legislative changes for the year ahead

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 28 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... intelligence is anticipated to play a larger role in ESG reporting. However, practitioners need to be aware of data safety, ethics, and compliance as the technology evolves and becomes more commonplace. Technologies like blockchain and AI will increasingly ...

ACCC issues greenwashing guidance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... because it relates to board expertise, reporting, transparency, stratregy, audit, reputation, accountability, risk and ethics. The guide also points out that the risks of greenwashing stretch psat the reputational and into the legal and financial. "We ...

Greenwashing a barrier to responsible investment uptake

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... market, which do a great job of helping do those comparisons for advisers, but it's not always easy," Willis said. "Ethics, values and responsible investment is very individual and bespoke, and advisers have a perception that it's not always ...

Call for investment to spur ethical fashion education

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... Kitto says no standard goes far enough. For example, while "certification on its own won't address the sustainability and ethics issues related to chocolate," Chocolate Scorecard coordinated by Be Slavery Free has a global reach of over a billion. "It's ...

How investors manage risk in a new AI world

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 17 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... Council. Accenture was a pioneer in the responsible use of technology, including the responsible use of AI in its code of ethics in 2017 which raised key risk and regulatory questions for generative AI including intellectual property, data privacy and ...

Australian Ethical hires CIO, head of impacts and ethics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
Australian Ethical has nabbed a sustainability research leader for a newly created role of head of impact and ethics as well as announcing a new chief investment officer. Alison George will join Australian Ethical on 1 May from Regnan, where she is ...

CFA Societies in call for uniform ESG disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2023  |  NEWS
... developing standards on other topics, such as the asset manager code, the global investment performance standards, the code of ethics and professional conduct." The CFA Institute's ESG disclosure standards are global, which means they bring interoperability ...

Trust in ethics plummets: Governance Institute

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2022  |  NEWS
Australia's perception of society's ethics has taken another fall, and the perceived overall importance of ethical conduct has increased, leading to a net ethical expectations gap that exposes risks, according to the Governance Institute. The ...

Glencore faces greenwashing allegations

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2022  |  NEWS
... alleges "apparent breaches of the Environmental Claims Code and Australian Association of National Advertisers Code of Ethics." "Climate change is one of the key challenges of our time and with it has come a fundamental shift in global policy and public ...

Strong demand for ESG managed accounts: Praemium

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2022  |  NEWS
... at managed accounts, you have the transparency and the look through," he said. "If a client wants to invest in line with ethics, and has as very specific aversion to a particular stock, then managed accounts allow you to customise the portfolio and exclude ...