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Climate risk assessment impacts on small, mid-cap portfolios: Fairlight AM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020  |  NEWS
Ed note: The Sustainability Report is pleased to present this opinion piece from Ian Carmichael, portfolio manager and partner, Fairlight Asset Management. The opinions expressed reflect Fairlight Asset Management 's position. Ian Carmichael, portfolio ...

GRI hires director of capital markets engagement, head of policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... (John Hopkins University, Bologna and Washington D.C.). She is also a Yale World Fellow, 2011. "When it comes to ESG disclosure standards, users are recognizing the importance of understanding not just the impact ESG factors have on businesses, but also ...

SSGA to vote against ASX100, global ESG laggards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... including predicting that the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) will emerge as the leading global ESG disclosure framework. Colton pointed to SASB's transparent methodology as well as its development by both investors and companies as ...

IOSCO releases statement on ESG-related disclosures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2019  |  NEWS
The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has emphasised that environmental, social and governmental (ESG) matters "though sometimes characterized as non-financial, may have a material short-term and long-term impact on the business ...

Rising importance of sustainability in the commercial real estate industry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018  |  NEWS
Editor's note: The Sustainability Report is pleased to run this comment piece from Cromwell Property Group By Bobby Binning, Head of Property at Cromwell Property Group Bobby Binning, Head of Property at Cromwell Property Group Institutional investors ...

Investors have "no place to hide" from climate change impacts: BlackRock

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2016  |  NEWS
Investors are exposed to increasing climate change risk in four areas: technological advances, regulatory impacts, increasingly frequent extreme weather events and social pressures for greater climate awareness, according to research from the BlackRock ...

BlackRock presses case for better ESG disclosures for investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... take place that won't result in enforcement," she said. Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia all have regimes for ESG disclosure to clients, Bennett noted, while Japan has a Stewardship Code for both companies and investors. BlackRock's six policy recommendations ...

Companies "show variation" on ESG disclosures: Company Matters

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
Disclosure of environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks by ASX-listed companies is varied, with some companies not complying and coming up short. KPMG has analysed the disclosures of listed companies against the ASX Corporate Governance Council's ...

Investors demanding better corporate ESG disclosure: EY

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
Institutional investors are increasingly using companies' non-financial disclosures in their decision making process, but nearly two thirds of respondents to an EY survey said that companies do not adequately disclose material environmental, social ...

Australia/NZ property companies, funds outperform: GRESB

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015  |  NEWS
... sharing relevant to green building certificates. Overall trends in the global data show that sustainability goals and ESG disclosure are mainstream to property business practices- 93% of property companies and funds incorporate sustainability into business ...