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Exploding the glass cliff myth

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... companies that showed a greater level of underperformance than the market. Realindex has researched how issues like gender diversity in company management can indicate potential investment opportunity. The quantitative manager integrates data from ESG ...

Podcast: Is gender diversity an alpha signal - with Joanna Nash

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2022  |  NEWS
In this week's episode, brought to you by Realindex Investments, we discuss how a single issue like gender diversity can be used as an alpha signal as well as a qualitative measure of company risk and opportunity. We speak with Realindex Investments ...

First Sentier Investors hires industry exec to new ESG role

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 11 OCT 2022  |  NEWS
... Australian equities growth team is leading the industry in the integration of climate change, modern slavery and gender diversity into our investment process." "I'm driven by a desire to actively engage with companies on behalf of end investors," Le ...

Integrating ESG central to C-Suite considerations: Mazars

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2022  |  NEWS
... top-down push from further up in the supply chain across a range of issues including climate change, wage parity, gender diversity, health and safety, remuneration reporting, governance, and compliance. This requires C-Suite executives morph into "all-rounders" ...

ASX300 upping the ante on ESG reporting: Melior

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... on carbon intensity and net zero targets while showing only incremental improvements on social indicators like gender diversity on boards and executive leadership teams, according to Melior Investment Management. In its most recent quarterly report ...

More women on boards, but cultural diversity stagnating: Governance Institute

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2022  |  NEWS
... female-occupied board seats. This potentially brings two governance issues into conflict with each other - increasing gender diversity and concerns over overboarding, or the concern that a director is serving on too many boards to effectively manage ...

Identifying female leadership as driver of value: Vontobel

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2022  |  NEWS
... with three having never appointed women directors. Roc-Sennett focused in on the material issues relating to gender diversity that investors can influence through engagement and active ownership, including looking at the so-called "broken rung", whereby ...

Pushing ahead on gender parity in investment: Future IM/Pact

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 6 JAN 2022  |  NEWS
... Mercer research which found that in the funds management sector, Australia ranked 12th out of 22 in the world on gender diversity with just under 10% of key decision makers (KDM) being women. However, Beattie emphasises that the current trends of fund ...

ASX200 ESG reporting increases, but gaps remain: PwC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2021  |  NEWS
... resources and diversity and inclusion." In other areas needing attention, less than half - 47% - of the ASX200 have a gender diversity policy with measurable targets and progress metrics against those targets and 76% of the ASX200 do not have a Reconciliation ...

Baring Private Equity Asia inks multi-billion dollar SLL

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2021  |  NEWS
... targets that will reduce the interest rate of the loan if BPEA can achieve the objectives, primarily linked to gender diversity and climate change. The facility will support BPEA's private equity investment platform. On gender diversity, BPEA will ...