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HESTA issues Statement on Working with Indigenous Communities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
HESTA will directly engage with 14 mining and energy companies on working with Indigenous communities, with a focus on understanding how companies manage risks associated with Indigenous heritage protection. In the wake of the destruction of the Juukan ...

Walk Free launches human rights toolkit for business, investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... real risk there. Globally, we are talking to some of or partner front line organisations, and noting that there's a shift from doing work to prevent modern slavery, towards services like just providing food to people."

Online investors applying ESG criteria: Investment Trends

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... trends. This year, the vast majority of first-time investors are under the age of 40 (70%), which represents a significant shift from last year (51%)." A quarter of investors - 24% - said they had bought or sold investments based on environmental impact ...

UK pension fund to divest half its portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... appeared in sister publication Financial Standard. The UK's National Employment Savings Trust, known as NEST, will immediately shift close to half of its entire portfolio to climate aware strategies and begin divesting from companies involved in thermal ...

State Street Global Advisors to list new ESG ETF on ASX

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... seen more broadly a tipping point in the market, given the environment we've been in recent times. There is an absolute shift in wealth, with baby boomers preparing to pass on an intergenerational wealth transfer, with the recipients looking to align ...

Carbon emissions need to peak "as soon as possible": AXA IM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... the post-COVID-19 recovery to construct sustainable economy recovery and minimised carbon emissions. Moret focused on the shift of the energy mix as a priority area - while renewable energy has grown 13.8% per year between 2013 and 2018, it has not offset ...

Transformational investment needed to address systemic risk: WEF

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... different risks. "We want to understand major system shocks, and help asset owners to have the agility to opportunistically shift into market segments that are being repriced, " Birgden said. "We never push the line that ESG-driven investing in the short ...

HKEX, SSGA join Climate Bond Initiative Partners Programme

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... COVID-19 pandemic presents new opportunities for investors to consider their ESG strategies and for international capital to shift decisively towards sustainable investments," Kidney said. "The launch of STAGE by HKEX is a timely development, instrumental ...

Insure Our Future calls for halt to insuring oil and gas projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... coal, and it generates more revenue than coal," Bosshard said. "On the other hand, we don't as a global society have to shift away from oil and gas as quickly as we have to shift away from coal, so the phase out can be a bit slower, and we're starting ...

Super funds lag on disclosing proxy voting record: ACCR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... consideration as well. "The approach we're going to take this year is send it out to trustees as well to try and get them to shift, because we know from anecdotal evidence that once trustees have raised the issue of proxy voting in general, it tends ...