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Funds SA hires ESG expert

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... groups on human rights and natural capital. Thorpe previously worked as an energy and environment manager at Tokyo-based GR Company, the government relations and strategic public policy firm, and as a project and executive officer at Primary Industries ...

Looking beyond the gender pay gap

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 29 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... doesn't give reasons behind the gap - but the WGEA says it mostly represents men working in higher-paid roles within a company. Paying men more for the same job is illegal in Australia. Unadjusted pay gap data "doesn't compare like-for-like pay ...

Business calls for 12-month climate reporting delay

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 29 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... wheels" to prevent "risking failure." This comes as Treasury considers a 6-month delay raised by the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Treasury is also considering an extension to modified liability to class action lawsuits and private litigators ...

Defunct fund pays greenwashing fine

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... the statements in the PDS," the regulator said. "ASIC believes that applying a negative screening process which allows a company to derive up to 33% of its revenue from an excluded activity is not seeking to avoid investments in those activities." ASIC ...

Investors scrutinise Australia-first gender pay gap data

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 27 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... the reasons why men are making more than women. However, it mostly represents men working in higher-paid roles within a company - as paying women less for the same role has been illegal in Australia for 55 years. This year the data excludes CEOs, heads ...

Personal views influence climate decision-making

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Financiers are more likely to use internal modelling/analysis and company disclosures when assessing climate risk, the study found. Of those utilising climate scenarios provided by the IEA, base forecasts ...

Aware and Macquarie partner on green finance

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
Aware Super has inked a US$50 million deal to buy a speciality infrastructure finance company alongside Macquarie Asset Management's (MAM) Green Investment Group (GIG). Aware's private equity team will co-invest in Galway Sustainable Capital (GSC) ...

AXA IM warns companies on climate lobbying

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... more accurate and transparent corporate disclosure is needed, and more specifically, is expected, by investors to ensure company alignment between their climate policy engagement and delivering the 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement," A significant majority ...

Australian Unity to assist as trustees in compensation deal

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... 240 Indonesian victims, who were wrongfully imprisoned as children by the federal government between 2008 and 2012," the company said. It follows the Federal Court last month approving settlement terms in relation to a landmark class action brought against ...

Climate tech gets funding boost

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 20 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... said. "This grant puts us on the fast track to delivering affordable, net zero hydrogen to Australia." The technology the company is working on is set to produce hydrogen gas and solid carbon without CO2 emissions, overcoming the challenges of capturing ...