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Florida gov bans ESG from state pension investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... whimsical notions of a utopian tomorrow." In December 2021, DeSantis and the two other SBA trustees internalised proxy voting authority from external managers. The policy passed this week provides "guidance to the SBA employees now responsible for proxy ...

Avoid greenwash by linking exec pay to ESG: Maple-Brown Abbott

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
... and highlighted the work of Georgia Hall, an ESG analyst on the global listed infrastructure fund in developing a proxy voting strategy. In the second quarter of 2022 alone, Maple-Brown Abbott Global Listed Infrastructure voted against 31% of executive ...

Alexis Cheang joins TCorp

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
... Investment stewardship policy and ongoing management of the five stewardship pillars - portfolio integration of ESG, proxy voting, engagement with investee entities, industry collaboration, and transparency/disclosure - and embedding this throughout ...

HESTA first super fund to oppose AGL demerger

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2022  |  NEWS
... fund HESTA will vote against a proposed demerger of energy utility AGL, becoming the first super fund to state their proxy voting intentions in public. HESTA said it has engaged with AGL and decided to vote against the demerger, as reported in sister ...

US SEC proposes new disclosure for ESG funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2022  |  NEWS
... impact(s) they seek to achieve and summarize their progress on achieving those impacts." Further, funds that apply proxy voting or other engagement with issuers as a significant means of implementing their ESG strategy would be required to disclose information ...

ASX boards need to "quickly evolve" on ESG skills: Melior

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2022  |  NEWS
... gain access to a wider pool of director talent, according to Melior Investment Management. Melior is evolving their proxy voting principles and this year is increasing their focus on board composition, advocating for clearer disclosures around directors ...

Investor backing for Say on Climate votes: ACCR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2022  |  NEWS
... funds and found that 20 were shareholders in companies that held Say on Climate votes in 2021, and disclosed their proxy voting records for these resolutions. The Australian superannuation funds included Active Super, AMP, AustralianSuper, Aware Super ...

AGL takeover bid first, but not last on net zero grounds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
... discretion to the manager.... They're not managing retail money. A lot of the protections that are given under a proxy voting and the Corporations Act and a lot of the governance models we have are largely designed to protect retail investors, not sophisticated ...

Stakeholder capitalism key to long-term returns: Fink

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 20 JAN 2022  |  NEWS
... capitalism." With that in mind, Fink announced that BlackRock is using technology to give investors greater access to proxy voting at company AGMs. "We now offer this option to certain institutional clients, including pension funds that support 60 million ...

ASX companies in SSGA's sights over climate disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 13 JAN 2022  |  NEWS
... meet these expectations." SSGA will also expand their focus on diversity to include race and ethnicity. In the 2022 proxy voting season, SSGA will take voting action against responsible directors in S&P500 and FTSE100 companies that do not have a person ...