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Defunct fund pays greenwashing fine

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... funds "were exposed to controversial weapons investments, despite Morningstar's Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) Policy stating that such investments would be excluded." The PDS for the Morningstar International Shares (Unhedged) ...

ISSB publishes jurisdictional guide, seeks experts

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... firm "supports the work of ISSB and their efforts to drive adoption of their disclosure standards by policy makers and corporate issuers around the world," Basset added.

Family businesses see ESG driving future: Grant Thornton

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... private business tax and advisory partner at Grant Thornton. "There's obviously a lot of ESG coming out of the big corporate end, however family businesses are doing so many things in the ESG space that we wanted to showcase it," Pogson said. "Being ...

AXA IM warns companies on climate lobbying

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... high-impact sectors will notably be a reinforced area of focus to ensure consistency between publicly stated goals and corporate lobbying." AXA IM will use a case-by-case approach to ESG-related shareholder proposals, and if voting against certain proposals ...

FS Sustainability opens final voting round for ESG Power50

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... shaping the agenda and implementing the strategy on a wide variety of material environmental, social and corporate governance issues. "This year's nominees area diverse set of professionals from across the full range of ASX-listed Australia and present ...

Final text of EU ESG laws released

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... February 2024, the European Parliament and Council of the EU reached a provisional deal on a draft directive amending the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) on the time limits for the adoption of sustainability reporting standards for ...

China stock exchange rings in Year of the Dragon with ESG mandate

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... become a motivation for even better company management on environmental and social issues. At the same time, corporate governance would potentially improve if we take the reference from Japan recently." The guidance includes double materiality, governance ...

Dramatic spike in votes against ASX remuneration: Georgeson

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... them." Georgeson provides strategic shareholder services to corporations and shareholder groups working to influence corporate strategy. "If companies have a strike in the prior year, they're more engaged and more likely to be proactive in engagement ...

ASX companies boosting ESG staff, oversight: Perennial

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
Greenhouse gas emissions are once again the top ESG priority for companies, according to the most recent Perennial Better Future ESG survey. In the fifth edition of the Better Future survey, sent to approximately 200 ASX-listed corporates with responses ...

Aussie investors prepare for new EU rules

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) S1 and S2 come into effect. Also in January, companies affected by the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) began applying new rules for reports published in 2025. France recently introduced ...