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Workplace conduct a financial risk: Fidelity International

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... not engaged and they're not happy." But there are also times when culture-based financial risks arise because the corporate culture is less progressive than wider society, leaving a company vulnerable to exposure by whistleblowers, media attention ...

Corporate net zero plans at odds with anti-climate lobbying

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
Despite widespread corporate commitments to net zero, a significant proportion of global companies engage in lobbying that contradicts their stated environmental goals. While almost all US companies target net zero, most are weakly aligned to their ...

Nature-related risk a potential risk to directors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
Corporate directors have an obligation to consider nature-related risk in much the same way as other financial risks, according to a new legal opinion. Directors can take steps to identify and manage nature-related risks is the headline conclusion of ...

FS Sustainability launches ESG Power50 nominations

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... shaping the agenda and implementing the strategy on a wide variety of material environmental, social and corporate governance issues. "The inaugural ESG Power50 list recognised progressive performance across a deep range of ESG and sustainability," FS ...

Assessing companies ability to make the low carbon transition

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... research and data based from publicly disclosed information, that enable investors to objectively and robustly assess corporate and sovereign practices and processes. Australian supporters of TPI include Aware and HESTA. TPI was co-founded by the Church ...

Fears grow around greenwashing litigation protections

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... able to bring an action under certain provisions of the Corporations Act, Brynn O'Brien of Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR) told FS Sustainability. Both ACCR and GI members are concerned about how the phased approach would ...

Nearly a quarter of Australian bank debt has nature-related risk

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... work with their clients to deliver rich biodiversity outcomes for Australia." The Australian Conservation Foundation corporate campaigner Jonathan Moylan commented that since Australia is leading the way in mammalian extinctions and a significant proportion ...

ESG factors increasingly drive financial decisions

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... include ESG considerations such as materiality to reduce security risk (26%), ability to drive positive returns (19%), governance concerns (19%), climate risk (15%), and social risk (15%). 2023 saw an increase in ESG metric reporting with 66% of managers ...

Investors call for multilateral financial architecture overhaul

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... intermediate targets on engagement. In 2023, 100% of members sat engagement targets. More members set sub-portfolio targets in corporate debt, listed equity, and directly held real estate, growing from 41 members in 2022 to 67 in 2023. Members set sub-portfolio ...

ASX50 lags on disclosure of political spending: ACCR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... it comes to governance and disclosure of political spending, according to research from the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR). ACCR analysed ASX50 companies on how well they govern their political spending against the Center for ...