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ESG product definitions a matter for legislation: ASIC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission believes that standard definitions of ESG products and investments should be set by legislation. ASIC senior executive leader, corporations Claire LaBouchardiere spoke at the recent Australian Council ...

Directors engage on breadth of ESG issues facing companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2022  |  NEWS
... Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) annual conference. Future Fund board member and Transurban non-executive director Patricia Cross, South32 chair and non-executive director Karen Wood and ANZ chair Paul O'Sullivan provided insights ...

COP27 preview: loss and damage, action on commitments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2022  |  NEWS
... Australia to cut carbon emissions by 43% by 2030. Australia's enhanced NDC has been "well received," noted Emily Gerrard, director and principal lawyer at Comhar Group. "There are a number of countries since Glasgow that have submitted updated NDCs and ...

Innova launches ESG model portfolios

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2022  |  NEWS
... right by investors without taking on excessive portfolio tilts over exposures," says Innova Asset Management managing director and co-chief investment officer Dan Miles. "Charitable donations are a key measure of success that we will benchmark ourselves ...

State of the Environment report a wake up call for business, investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2022  |  NEWS
... "Our Nature Working Group, and in particular the focus on natural related financial disclosures shows that the finance director is responding and that there is a great deal of interest by the sector to up the ante in terms of responding to nature related ...

Strong demand for ESG products, but education needed

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2022  |  NEWS
... materials on what is a very complicated universe which covers a lot of different areas," said Investment Trends research director Dougal Guild. "There's definitely a high demand for more support from product providers and research houses to support them ...

CBA expands ESG term deposit to foreign currencies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2022  |  NEWS
... product. Extending the term deposit product to international currencies was an outgrowth of client demand, said CBA managing director and head of institutional sales Anthony Kritikides. "Institutional interest in the product has been high," he said. ...

Australian investors withdraw from ESG funds: Calastone

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2022  |  NEWS
... record. "Signs of optimism are scarce as the global bear market shreds investor sentiment," said Teresa Walker, managing director of Australia and New Zealand at Calastone. "June was the first time we have seen investors withdraw capital from every equity ...

LGT Crestone hires head of sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2022  |  NEWS
... our operations and networks." MacDonald joins Crestone from Perpetual Private in Sydney, where she was an investment director, providing strategic wealth advice to not for profit clients across Perpetual's wealth business. Prior to working at Perpetual ...

ASX 100 chief executive bonuses hit record highs

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2022  |  NEWS
... remuneration with sustainability commitments and decarbonisation targets, said Andrew Maple-Brown, cofounder and managing director of the Global Listed Infrastructure fund. In the second quarter of 2022 alone, Maple-Brown Abbott Global Listed Infrastructure ...