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Median CEO bonus payout near record high: ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
... the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI). Ed John, ACSI executive manager, governance, engagement and policy "It is striking that 70% of max entitlement is a regular outcome," said Ed John, executive manager, governance, engagement and ...

ACCR files shareholder resolution with BHP over industry associations

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
... resolution with BHP, calling on the company to suspend its memberships in industry associations which obstruct climate policy in Australia. Brynn O'Brien, executive director, ACCR ACCR is joined by Vision Super (Australia), a not-for-profit community ...

Amundi launches Amundi Funds Multi-Asset Sustainable Future

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
... controversial environmental practice. Amundi then selects companies with the best ratings under their proprietary ESG rating policy, paired with fund managers' selection of "fundamentally sound companies with a positive impact" in line with ESG criteria ...

Investment in climate-related opportunities grow: IGCC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2019  |  NEWS
... agriculture, and real estate." The main barrier to increasing investment in green/climate-aligned opportunities continues to be policy uncertainty, with more than 40% of investors redirect investments to jurisdictions, sectors or markets with less uncertainty ...

ASX200 boards still below 30% gender diversity target: AICD

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2019  |  NEWS
... Telecom Limited Earlier this year, The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) updated its gender diversity policy to extend to ASX201-300 companies, meaning that ASX200 boards with one or zero women directors could face a vote against ...

TelstraSuper joins Australian Asset Owner Stewardship Code

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2019  |  NEWS
... not, why not' basis: 1. Publicly disclose how they approach their stewardship responsibilities. 2. Publicly disclose their policy for voting at company meetings and voting activity. 3. Engage with companies either directly, indirectly (for example, via ...

G7 Ministers statement supports growth of the impact investing market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2019  |  NEWS
... France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States also said they "stress the need to create enabling policy environments in order to help drive impactful investments towards developing countries and fragile economies. We support ...

CEFC, Ironstone Capital create Warada Capital, specialist joint venture

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
... capabilities in the local renewable energy sector, which is currently dominated by offshore participants. This is pivotal to our policy objective of supporting the orderly transition of the Australian economy to a decarbonised future." The CEFC has developed ...

Fidelity International develops proprietary sustainability ratings system

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
... in more than 16,000 company meetings a year the firm said. The ratings will be updated annually or following a change of policy or an exceptional event at the company. The proprietary ratings have been fully integrated into Fidelity's investment process ...

MSCI creates Climate Change Indexes tilted to low carbon transition

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
... companies with carbon intensive products than the underlying index, MSCI said. The indexes can be used as an investment policy benchmark, as an underlying index for passive products such as ETFs, as a benchmark for asset manager performance, and as a ...