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Morningstar boosts ESG focus with new hire

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
Morningstar has appointed Michelle Cameron as the commercial leader for Sustainalytics in Australia. Cameron has decades of experience leading sales, customer management and service teams in financial services with a focus on sustainable finance and ...

Demand for human rights solutions intensifies

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... unveiled its key functions as a UN body turns the spotlight on passive funds to do more on human rights. The UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights says investors must engage with index providers to do tackle human rights concerns. An article ...

Social TCFD-equivalent seeks leaders

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... Social-related Financial Disclosures (TISFD) seeks a director, a head of engagement, and four co-chairs for its working group. The TISFD is a Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)-equivalent for social and inequality-related financial ...

Canberra scopes First Nations economic policy

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... Employment White Paper. Jamie Lowe, Gunditjmara Djabwurrung man and chair of the First Nations Economic Partnership Working Group said partnerships between government and First Nations bodies are an important avenue for shared decision-making, essential ...

Stewardship resources should double

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). The research comes out of a technical working group of PRI members and a survey of 69 entities with US$16 trillion in assets under management globally. TAI today launched a new ...

AI toolkit to protect human rights

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... Intelligence (AI). The Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights Investor Toolkit was created by RIAA's Human Rights Working Group. The toolkit presents strategies to weigh financial risks, assess human rights impact, and advocate for public policy and ...

RIAA: Sustainability goes mainstream

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2024  |  NEWS
... Toolkit will also be launched. The toolkit "is the result of some incredible work by members of RIAA's human rights working group and experts in the field of AI and digital tech. "It is designed to help investors understand the challenges, risks, and ...

MLC Life hires from U Ethical

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2024  |  NEWS
... advisor to the Responsible Investment Association of Australasia's certification program and policy advocacy working group, she has also been involved with, the Investor Group on Climate Change and Investors Against Slavery and Trafficking. Lucchese ...

New campaign pushes for reproductive leave

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... health concerns." Maurice Blackburn has long been a proponent of reproductive leave. At the end of 2022 it formed a working group with several trade unions to push for the federal government to recognise the various impacts menopause can have on a woman ...

RIAA creates co-CEO model to replace outgoing O'Connor

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... Stewardship Code, of which they were the co-secretariat. RIAA has also established their first Aotearoa NZ collaborative working group and work with the Centre for Sustainable Finance as well. Outgoing CEO Simon O'Connor said decision by the board ...