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Australia, EU Free Trade Agreement includes SDGs, climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... agreement in itself would be the governing document.... The agreement may or may not provide arbitration or may set up a different process. Typically, again, the Australian negotiators aren't going to expose either the government or producers to unmanageable ...

Corporate culture a factor in stock selection: WCM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... thread aligning the people in an organisation from the top to the bottom," Kelly said. "We do due diligence on many different people within a company, and also look to information from outside a company on what the company is like, what sort of person ...

Institutional Shareholder Services purchases CAER

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... forward as the local office for ISS ESG here in Canberra," he said. "It's interesting from our perspective to look at the different opportunities that the relationship with ISS brings in terms of closer linking between stewardship activities and ESG ...

Human rights, trust, climate risk top sustainability agenda for 2019

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
With the closing of January and the end to summer holidays, sustainability professionals and investors are gearing up for another busy year ahead, with experts telling The Sustainability Report that first year of the Modern Slavery Act, wider human ...

Zuper Super launches Wealthness hub to educate, engage member base

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... retirement as well as other financial goals. "Wealthness pulls together this idea that wealth is dependent on a myriad of different things in your life," said Jess Ellerm, Zuper Super co-founder and CEO. "Health, relationships, mindfulness - not just ...

Coca Cola, WWF-Australia, farmers mark 10 years of Project Catalyst

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2018  |  NEWS
... the entire five years to achieve scientific rigour, Bugeja said. "On our own farm, we've had various trails around the different rates of nitrogen in soil," he said. "The reason we do that is because the actual crop is quite variable, and we're actively ...

Potentially hazardous ingredients in consumer products as investment risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2018  |  NEWS
... product ranges," said Emily Prentice, research consultant at ISF and co-author of the report. "It boiled down to three different elements of risk.... Obviously, there was financial risk, whether there was vulnerability to regulatory issues, present or ...

Big data, ESG ratings can combine to unlock investment return: TruValue

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2018  |  NEWS
... for the conclusions, said Stephen Malinak, chief data and analytics officer at TruValue Labs. "You could take several different approaches with the same data," Malinak said. "We found really quickly from our data that there's a sweet spot of returns ...

Accounting for or managing: experts debate managing impact at RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
There is no one right way to measure social and environmental impacts in an investment portfolio, with different organisations measuring impact in different ways, depending on size and mission. Alex Oppes, director, impact investing at SVA There are ...

Companies engage with material human rights issues: BCSD Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
Nearly two thirds of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) member organisations consider human rights material, but only 23% of companies mention a specific human rights strategy in their sustainability reports. Andrew Petersen ...