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The role of finance has never been more important: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... issues captured by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), climate change, and the coronavirus crisis. The Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) held a virtual conference session covering finance's role in these issues, with coronavirus ...

Majority expect savings, super to be ethically invested: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... moving to alternative providers that invest in such a fashion, according to new research commissioned by the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA). Simon O'Connor, CEO RIAA According to the report From Values to Riches 2020, 80% of those ...

Teachers Mutual Bank's certified responsible products hit $1.17 billion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... July and 31 December 2019. Teachers Mutual Bank has five products certified as responsible products by the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA)'s certification program. Those five products are part of the bank's Debt Issuance Programme ...

FTSE Russell hires head of sustainable investment, Asia Pacific

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... providing advisory research on stewardship implementation for pension funds and family office clients, drafting responsible investment policies and integrating sustainability policies into both active and passive portfolios. Previous work experience ...

Integrating ESG considerations in securities lending programs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... emergence of ESG benchmarks, indices and the development of principles for the assessment of companies and responsible investment, each individual investor decides which principles matter most to them. For example, for some the focus is low carbon footprint ...

Amundi reports increased demand for fixed income ETFs, ESG integration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... with companies that are held in the ETF and indexed products, and works with the stipulations of clients' responsible investment and ESG policies, he added.

Analysis: climate change, Australia and the fierce urgency of now

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... people are impatient to take action and do something around this," said Simon O'Connor, CEO of the Responsible Investment Association Australasia. "The dots are being joined between fires and climate change, and that is flowing through to a conversation ...

VFMC hires Talieh Williams as head of investment stewardship

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... governance and sustainable investment from 2008 through 2019. She has been a non-executive director for the Responsible Investment Association Australasia and the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors, and is a member of the Australian Sustainable ...

David Atkin, responsible investment leader, to step down as Cbus CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... and women of the building and construction industry." Atkin is considered an "elder statesperson of the responsible investment community," Bracks noted. Atkin served as Australian asset owner representative on the PRI Board (Principles of Responsible ...

How the law can drive impact through investment: B Lab

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... profit. The trick now is for words to become actions. Recently the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment announced it will investigate whether and how legal frameworks allow for - and incentivise - investors to consider sustainability ...