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Ethical investments recover performance: Chant West

ROSE MARY PETRASS, RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... Management's people and planet diversified fund generated a notable gross return of 10.6% compared to 9.0% from the SR50 Balanced Index for FY23. With $101.2 million assets under management, the fund is governed by an ethical and impact investment policy ...

ASX200 skirts Scope 3 disclosures

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... have declined by 9% due to companies having met their short-term targets and due to a combination of changes in the ASX200 index. 14% of companies with net zero commitments have no interim targets. In 2017 when the TCFD was released, just 10% of companies ...

Active Super to face court over greenwashing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... liable to mislead the public in representing that all securities in the Vanguard Ethically Conscious Global Aggregate Bond Index Fund (Hedged) (Fund) were screened against certain ESG criteria." ASIC said investments in the fund were based on the Bloomberg ...

Are indexes the next target for greenwashing investigations?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... Vanguard for allegations of greenwashing in a bond fund raises the question of whether the market regulator will crack down on index providers and other third-party service providers for greenwashing as well. Last month, ASIC announced it is taking Vanguard ...

Climate resilience needed to dodge $442b VIC loss by 2100

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 31 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
... insurance event in the world that year," Hall said. ICA urged government to extend the five-year disaster resilience funding, index disaster mitigation funding from 2023-24 so it does not fall in real terms, invest the full amount of budgeted funding ...

ASIC takes Vanguard to court over further greenwashing claims

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
ASIC is taking Vanguard to court over greenwashing allegations relating to a global bond index fund. This is the second time the market regulator has taken action against Vanguard over greenwashing. ASIC has lodged civil penalty proceedings in federal ...

Schneider: Digitalisation key to dodging energy shocks

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
... longitudinal study investigating corporate Australia's position on sustainability and energy efficiency. Sustainability Index 2023 found that sustainability is now top of mind for Australian businesses, with almost half (43%) now concerned about ...

Cleaning up diversity-washing boosts business performance

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 3 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
Financy, creator of the Financy Women's Index, recently launched anti-DEI-washing app Impacter to help businesses self-assess, improve business outcomes, and move towards best practice on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). The new cloud-based ...

Aussie businesses building climate resilience: FM Global

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUN 2023  |  NEWS
... risk exposure, but it has inched up a notch to sit in 19th place for its ability to address those risks, according to a new index from commercial property insurer FM Global. The insurer has released the 2023 FM Global Resilience Index, which measures ...

Just 5% of global emissions covered by corporate targets

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUN 2023  |  NEWS
... emissions, are on track to meet their targets. Across disclosing companies from the FTSE 100 and S&P 500, 31 companies (31% of index) and 59 companies (12% of index) respectively had 1.5 aligned SBTi targets. The tracker found disclosed corporate targets ...