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DWS Group Appoints ESG Advisory Board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... expertise in ESG, the firm said. DWS has EUR 759 billion of assets under management as of 30 September 2020 and operates in Germany, Europe, the Americas and Asia. "We want to take a leading role in ESG in the asset management industry and are already ...

Company secretaries weigh challenges, opportunities of virtual AGM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... directors, including Executive Chairman Marcelino Fernandez Verdes, who is based in Spain. "We had directors based in Spain, Germany, the US, Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney," Nikolopoulos noted. "We appointed out tech providers and they spoke with everyone. ...

Climate change and public health cannot be viewed in isolation: UNGCNA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... non-infectious diseases linked to warmer global temperatures. The GCNA report says Australia lags other developed countries such as Germany and the United Kingdom in its preparation for climate change associated health issues and that without a federal ...

Insure Our Future calls for halt to insuring oil and gas projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... Action Network (USA), Re:Common (Italy), Solutions for Our Climate (Korea), The Sunrise Project (Australia) and urgewald (Germany), among others. Data on oil and gas insurance premiums is not publicly available, the report said. Insure Our Future identified ...

PGIM charts rise of corporate "profit with purpose" mindset

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... fund manager PGIM. Taimur Hyat, chief operating officer, PGIM PGIM recently conducted a survey of companies in the U.S., Germany and China, and found that 55% of German firms consider "a range of stakeholders beyond equity holders and short-term profit ...

Companies have responsibility to meld profit and purpose: IBM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... workforce. IBM's Global Purpose Study used an international sample of 7,020 adults in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States. Future of work and education ...

Green bond issuance could hit close to US$300 billion: Insight Investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... with the telecommunication sector now part of the market. The Netherlands issued its inaugural green bond in 2019 and Germany said it intends to issue a green bond later in 2020. However, Australian issuance of green bonds stayed relatively level in ...

Millennials prioritise long term returns, fees in investment funds: Calastone

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2019  |  NEWS
... invested. Calastone's report is based off of a survey of more than 3,000 people aged 23-35 across Australia, U.K., France, Germany, U.S. and Hong Kong about their attitudes to personal saving and investing. Survey respondents were given a ranked list ...

G7 Ministers statement supports growth of the impact investing market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2019  |  NEWS
... financing approach" to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In the statement, ministers from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States also said they "stress the need to create enabling policy environments ...

Christian Super acquires stake in responsAbility Investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
... 15 funds over the years from Switzerland to various international markets, including the Nordics, the Netherlands and Germany. The share capital of responsAbility Investments AG is predominantly held by a broad range of prominent Swiss financial institutions ...