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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 ...

Quant manager deploys AI to identify corporate greenwashing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... greenwashing in potential investments. Acadian, a quantitative equities manager, integrates environmental, social and governance data widely through portfolio processes. The firm said it developed the automated system to identify greenwashing - when ...

Fostering equity, inclusion key to diversity gains: Regnan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... hoping to achieve. "The other interesting piece is in the measurement space- the important of organisations triangulating data within organisations and taking a diversity lens in looking at the root causes. That can be things like measuring the take-up ...

Banks face multi-billion risks from climate change: Accenture

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... it's to standardise the sorts of approaches that we use to establish global scenarios, but also to improve the ADI's data collection and to inform risk management, and that's the quantitative aspect of the climate vulnerability assessment." ...