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Opinion: Mind the gap: Investors continue to stall on climate action, despite sentiment confirming its risks

DAVID KLAUSNER  |  FRIDAY, 20 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... portfolios. This leaves many investors unprepared for the inevitable climate-driven repricing of markets. The action gap: a lack of data drives inaction According to PGIM's latest climate change survey, around 90% of investors worldwide believe climate ...

Gender pay gaps "sabotage" diversity, profits: UniSA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... $1,385,457 for men as compared to $923,638 for women. The study by UniSA assessed 539 ASX-listed firms across 10 years of data from 2004-2013, constituting 2095 observations. "Organisations are doing things to try to improve gender diversity and one ...

More companies reporting on SDGs, but climate clarity needed

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... RMIT University and CPA Australia on the top 150 Australian public-listed companies (ASX150) looked at sustainability report data from 2018-2020. The findings indicated that the extent of awareness, commitment and governance support for the SDGs has ...

Cultural factors influence ESG approaches: Morgan Stanley Investment Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... engagement with companies is we want to have a good sense of how does this portfolio perform on a non-financial perspective. Data is useful, but going to meet with companies and getting a sense for how they are operating is part of our artisanal qualitative ...

Uptick in web application attacks on financial institutions: Imperva

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... industry with Distributed Denial of Service (DDos) and Ransom DDoS attacks to disrupt operations, and to steal sensitive data via specific web applications attacks - namely Data Leakage, RCE/RFI and Cross-site scripting (XSS). These attacks are becoming ...

Improve ESG data, analytics to enhance decisions: SAS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
Improving ESG data and analytics is key to making sustainability central to shareholder and corporate decisions, according to SAS. Currently, ESG data is still disparate, which limits the ways in which business decision makers can use it to inform strategic ...

Census "a missed opportunity" on key questions: Diversity Council Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... Annese also noted that the Census should also capture more information about ethnic and cultural ancestry. "In gathering data about ethnic and cultural background, you need quite a few questions to get to an accurate response, and that includes questions ...

Investors press for swift action in wake of climate report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 10 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... IPCC also warns that climate change is happening at rates faster than previously estimated. This is based on improvements to data and analysis. The report outlined a range of physical impacts, noting that global surface temperature will continue to increase ...

IPCC report highlights need for urgent action in Australia: CMI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 10 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... IPCC also warns that climate change is happening at rates faster than previously estimated. This is based on improvements to data and analysis. Connor notes that Australia "still mostly has the policy goals and structure determined by Prime Minister ...

Assessing big tech's ESG risks and opportunities: Aviva Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... nuanced approach." Piffaut noted that tech firms also introduce innovations that carry ethical considerations, including data privacy issues, the responsibility to moderating hate content and the role of fake news in influencing democratic outcomes ...