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Human capital management a signal of overall sustainability: Lazard

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... security or medical insurance, or for furloughed employees in financial distress. The hardship fund has been topped up by the board, which collectively took a 20% pay cut and redirected the savings into the hardship fund," the paper noted. The COVID-19 ...

State Street Global Advisors launch Climate ESG International Equity Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... system, R-Factor. R-Factor integrates multiple data sources and is built utilising the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) materiality framework. The fund manager uses SASB's Materiality Map to generate a unique ESG score for listed companies. ...

Aviva Investors identifies megatrends representing market failures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... issues including human rights, climate change, gender balance and living wage - alongside the core governance questions of board calibre, board independence, and executive pay structure." But Waygood also identified the importance of a broader approach ...

Future Business Council to close, join BCSD Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... network, contacts and intellectual property. As part of the agreement, FBC Chair Toby Kent will join the BCSD Australia board as BCSD Australia strengthens its position with the research and advocacy work of FBC. "We're really proud of the work that's ...

Climate action by regulators deferred, not denied: MinterEllison

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... climate change on financial performance, position and prospects. Further, in April 2019, the Australian Accounting Standards Board and Auditing and Assurance Standards Board "issued joint guidance stating that climate change-related assumptions have ...

AMP Capital regards long term impacts of COVID-19, climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... could do with working on their stress testing and resilience management. That plays into corporate governance, skills on the board and the ability to do crisis planning." This leads to AMP Capital's work on board construction and appropriate diversity ...

ESG focus on climate change, income inequality: T. Rowe Price

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... ESG disclosure with global frameworks that emphasise financial materiality, namely the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosure (TCFD). "The value of pressing for greater disclosure is that ...

Pivot to virtual AGMs, communication offer opportunities: Redback Connect

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... with the terrible tragedy that has been unfolding around us. "We're in this situation where now the gov't is getting on board, and it has brought the gov't in alignment with the ways IR professionals can change and modernise. Historically, the way that ...

Four structural challenges for business to navigate post-lockdown: PGIM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... 9/11 brought around new security for airlines and anti-money laundering laws. The GFC brought about the Financial Stability Board and Basel III. Right now governments are feeling the sting of shortages of critical goods to protect and feed their people. ...

APRA creating and recruiting to fill role of head of climate risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... the financial risks of climate change has steadily increased in recent years. In 2017, Geoff Summerhayes, APRA executive board member, made a landmark speech in which he emphasised "[s]ome climate risks are distinctly 'financial' in nature. Many of these ...