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U Ethical hires two to investments team

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... Their clients now hail from a range of sectors from private investors and self managed super funds, to institutions in the health and education sectors.

GreenCollar secures funding for Queensland carbon farming projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
Environmental markets project developer and investor GreenCollar has secured funding for a series of carbon farming projects under the Queensland Government's $500M Land Restoration Fund (LRF). The approved projects will generate an estimated value ...

Identifying potential risks of COVID-19 and modern slavery in supply chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... significant and unprecedented disruption for Australian businesses and global supply chains." This disruption, and the health and safety and greater human rights impacts on employees in the supply chain both in Australia and internationally have raised ...

ESG performance and cannabis

KELLIE JOHNSTON, ANDREA BREWER  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... interest. Another major driver is consumers who are becoming increasingly interested in where their products originate, their health and safety characteristics, and their impacts on people and the environment. A growing volume of evidence shows companies ...

Do founder-led listed companies outperform on E, S and G metrics?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... comes into play. Many qualitative fund managers evaluate the impacts of founder-led companies on issues like occupational health and safety, and governance and social issues, but say the results can be idiosyncratic. Investment professionals who spoke ...

Investing in healthcare yields financial, social returns: American Century

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... the Sustainable Development Goals, according to global fund manager American Century Investments. The American Century Health Care Impact Equity fund, managed by Michael Li, seeks quality stocks by incorporating acceleration, relative strength, and valuation ...

Climate, modern slavery areas of engagement: Ethical Partners

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... -that's been one of our major pushes. COVID-19 has also been a big push over the last six months, touching on worker health and safety, insecure and unfair work, and other issues." Social issues are growing areas of engagement overall, noted Nathan ...

Women continue to see gains on ASX200 boards: AICD

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
Women hold 31.3% of ASX200 board positions, with only one ASX200 company not having a single woman on its board, according to the latest data from the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD). Nicola Wakefield Evans, 30% Club Australia chair ...

GCNA urges government to focus on sustainability in COVID-19 recovery

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
A group of Australian businesses, industry groups, universities and civil society organisations are urging the federal government to "remain focused" on creating a sustainable future while creating policies related to the post-COVID-19 pandemic recovery. ...

ESG superannuation funds outperform in torrid year: Rainmaker

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... it's fair to say that many [ESG funds] are highly likely to be heavily invested into services sectors, alternate energy, health and pharma and technology," said Alex Dunnin, Rainmaker executive director of research and compliance. "These are sectors ...