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Global fund manager launches bond impact strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... "Significant investment is needed to combat some of the key issues our society faces, including climate change, global inequality and chronic housing shortages across the world," Liberatore said. "Yet the perception - an inherently false one - is that ...

Fund manager issues first Reconciliation Action Plan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... Development Goals as a framework for their investment process, and have selected gender equality, climate action and reduced inequality as the three key goals. "We see corporate Australia as having a critical role to play in this," Bailey said. "Corporates ...

Climate change, diversity, inequality top engagement agenda: T. Rowe Price

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
Climate change, diversity, and systemic inequality topped the engagement list for T. Rowe Price, with the global fund manager pressing for improved disclosure from corporations and asset managers on ESG issues. T. Rowe Price has issued its third ESG ...

Opinion: 2021 Reboot: three ways to innovate for impact

WARWICK PEEL, GORDON NOBLE  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... industries. Across society we need to continue to concentrate on issues like health and well-being and increase our focus on inequality. We need to ensure that the lessons of the 2019-2020 summer bushfires are not lost and invest resources to protect ...

Biden inauguration brings climate challenge for Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... from the COVID-19 pandemic and Biden's commitments to shore up and expand the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to gender inequality, with the US being the only OECD country not offering paid parental leave, and of course action on climate. Petersen related ...

Fund supports deidentified recruitment

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... at CVs or resumes when hiring. "At Future Super, we're working to deliver a future free from climate change and inequality, and our actions need to match our words. However, our track record with the diversity of our own team hasn't always been ...

Future Super to reduce fees on fund options

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 29 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... Those savings are passed back to members. "We grow retirement savings to shape a future free from climate change and inequality," Hunter said. "Our primary objective is to ensure that our members have a comfortable retirement, and reducing the fees associated ...

Climate change, SDG impacts of US election

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... from the COVID-19 pandemic and Biden's commitments to shore up and expand the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to gender inequality, with the US being the only OECD country not offering paid parental leave, and of course action on climate. "It is important ...

Cost of no climate action to hit Australian economy: Report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... change are massive disruptors sitting alongside economies that need to modernise." Another trend is the growing sense of inequality and lack of trust, Philip noted. "What COVID-19 has done has been to accelerate all of these trends," he said. "We need ...

Northern Trust outlines social, environmental challenges to road ahead

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... inflation, policy, really the whole set of circumstances," Sturkenboom said. "We kept getting back to the question of inequality, how it's hampering economic growth, how it's the force behind impactful political changes such as the Brexit vote, Trump's ...