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ASIC critiques management of non-financial risk in governance review

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2019  |  NEWS
... governance practices and accountability structures with reference to our findings." ASIC had four broad conclusions about the nature of non-financial risk management: All too often, management was operating outside of board-approved risk appetites for ...

Put climate resilience at the core of business strategy: WBCSD

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2019  |  NEWS
... chains and across the communities where they operate. 3. Assess the connections, dependencies and value to society and nature (source: WBCSD) Within those steps, there are calls to action for business: understand and assess business risks, put resilience ...

Rise of automation to drive emergence of "super jobs": Deloitte

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2019  |  NEWS
... knowledge is shrinking, Brown said. "The half-life of what people know now has reduced down to, depending on people and the nature of the job - two to five years, tops," Brown said. "So, the whole way in which we go about thinking about learning is changing. ...

Climate risk necessitates short and long term stress testing: Mercer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019  |  NEWS
... infrastructure, it should generate lower operating costs over the life, compared to non-sustainable infrastructure." "The long term nature of this problem can't be confused with a lack of urgency," Birgden said. "One of the ways that we're trying to ...

IOSCO releases statement on ESG-related disclosures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2019  |  NEWS
... decisions." I OSCO recently released a statement that provided a summary and a reminder, rather than suggested changes in the nature and structures of ESG disclosures. ISOCO noted that disclosures of ESG information in markets has increased in recent ...

Coca Cola, WWF-Australia, farmers mark 10 years of Project Catalyst

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2018  |  NEWS
... than 130 Queensland sugarcane farmers are participating in a partnership between Coca-Cola and the World Wide Fund for Nature Australia (WWF-Australia), which provides funding to study innovative and more sustainable farming techniques to positively ...

Core Civic, GEO Group flagged for ESG controversies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... exposures." Both GEO Group and Core Civic have been rated poorly for employee health and safety as well, given the higher risk nature of prison security as well as allegations of understaffing at both companies, she added. MSCI shares its reports with ...

Expert panel discusses growth of Australia's impact investing market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... the strategy, agreed. "That's definitely a common theme for impact investment," she said. "It has to be tailored to the nature of the investment and what it's doing," she said. "The way we do it is that when we meet with a company and when we understand ...

Rosenberg Equities to manage $1bn ESG mandate for CalPERS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... high earnings quality. The strategy further integrates ESG factors, as AXA IM believes that ESG information is economic in nature as it helps orient toward companies that are using their resources well (human, physical, technological). This strategy ...

Listed franchise companies facing structural reform risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... regulatory imbalances hard-wired into the franchising system," in their view it is unlikely that the incidents are sporadic in nature or limited just to the franchisees named in the submissions. "The fact that the Joint Committee has had to write formally ...