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BlackRock details engagement activity in stewardship report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... greater clarity on the fund's expectations of invested companies. "We are bringing in the concept of purpose and license to operate, and being very conscious of our own purpose, and encouraging companies to think about how they're challenging their own," ...

Data management presents risk, opportunity: Governance Institute

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... requirements, but help you perform as a business." Maintaining trust with stakeholders is an essential part of social license to operate. "Organisations should look at this through a business sustainability lens and say, it's in our best interests to ...

Digital human rights rise up the agenda post-COVID-19: Robeco

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... were produced and ready to send, and they don't want to pay for them," Essink said. "That goes back to social license to operate, and human capital is key in that place."

Human capital management a signal of overall sustainability: Lazard

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... beginning to understand the importance of wider stakeholder sponsorship." This includes the risk of losing social license to operate, as well as risks to investors in terms of cuts to dividends, as well as regulatory and legislative responses to COVID-19 ...

OHS, social license to operate identified as infrastructure risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... many of whom are deemed essential and have been working through the pandemic - and the fulfilment of social license to operate. Rebecca Myatt, portfolio manager for First Sentier's Sustainable Listed Infrastructure Fund Investors have identified occupational ...

Fundamental portfolio managers analyse ESG performance of funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... of sustainability at a company and global level. "What I think this means is a racheting up of this social license to operate conversation, because if you go back to the fundamentals as to why we face the problems we face today, it' the intersection ...

The role of finance has never been more important: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... Action 100+, while the economic argument of cheaper costs of renewable energy and the pressure brought by social license to operate will continue to move action, Lewis said. In terms of regional responses to coronavirus as well as climate change and ...

Sustainability faces greatest test in response to coronavirus

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... disruption, physical change, rules being thrown out the window and how you act now is a demonstration of your social license to operate." Sustainability managers that are entrenched across business operations are in a position to understand how this ...

Integrating ESG essential to infrastructure portfolio: First Sentier Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... change, interruptions, have become very important. That's what the customers expect, the gov't expects, your license to operate demands." Looking to 2020, First State Sentier will launch a third European Diversified Infrastructure Fund (EDIF III). EDIF ...

Global responsible investment assets top US$30 trillion: GSIA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019  |  NEWS
... two, the sophistication to which it is being embedded. It highlights that responsible investment has become a license to operate issue for financial services." The fourth edition of the biennial Global Sustainable Investment Review brings together the ...