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Global digitalisation impacting environmental, social factors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... outlooks. They note that valuations are high in certain parts of the market, saying "with extremely accommodative monetary policy, and central banks committed to supporting higher growth, the conditions do exist for further equity market upside; however ...

Industry fund sets bar higher with Net Zero timing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... engaging with our managers, our companies, with other investors, which we've been doing for several years, and advocating policy changes around these things as well. That's the first and key thing that we are looking to do as part of this process." ...

Serving up meat's sustainability risks, opportunities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... of what we've been stressing with companies," van der Werf said. "It's not sufficient to have an animal welfare policy on paper, if you have those exposures that show animal cruelty. We've seen, for instance, more use of video monitoring ...

More women on ASX200 boards, but lag in CEO and chair roles: ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... for better governed companies which is intrinsically linked to long-term shareholder value." In 2019, ACSI announced a policy calling for listed companies to set a timeframe for achieving gender balanced boards, which it says can be met with a 40:40:20 ...

Economist urges drastic action on climate change policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
Not having a strong federal policy on climate change and a pathway to move to zero carbon emissions by 2050 brings continued risk to Australia's economic growth long term, according to the head of one the leading economic think tanks. Danielle Wood ...

C-suite executives cite climate as top risk to growth: EY

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... activity, local executives are also concerned with the uncertainty that climate risk brings, mainly as pertains to climate policy, Nelson said. "There is a firm acceptance that climate policy is going to get more aggressive in the next three to five ...

Calculating the social cost of carbon: Dimensional Fund Advisors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... future damage caused by greenhouse gas emissions can be used to estimate a price as a basis for generating climate change policy as well as considering impacts on companies, according to Dimensional Fund Advisors. Joseph Chi, head of responsible investment ...

Investment consultant creates head of sustainability role

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... Smith said. "There are range of services that we would like to develop - things like, how do you develop a carbon neutral policy for example, and then how do you implement it in a practical way, embed it into the DNA and the way you formulate portfolios. ...

Assessing climate risk in corporate bond portfolios

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... with forward-looking carbon reduction metrics, as well as to engage with issuers who may not have an appropriate climate policy in place. Homer cited the example of Enel, a utility that is currently one of the top five emitters in Europe, but have set ...

Investors lag in integrating climate risk: PGIM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... an Altered Investment Landscape. The research involved insights from PGIM fund managers, external academics, economists, policy-makers, scientists and climate change investors; and a survey of 100 global institutional investors to better understand their ...