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Workplace conduct a financial risk: Fidelity International

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
Workplace misconduct is a material financial risk to business and investors, with potential spillover impacts extending beyond an individual company to jeopardise the reputation of entire industries, according to new research from Fidelity International. ...

RIAA creates co-CEO model to replace outgoing O'Connor

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... RIAA's RI Certification process are from New Zealand, and "the policy environment has kept us incredibly busy over the last few years and there is a great deal of activity that our members want to do even more of." RIAA chair Ross Piper emphasised ...

Investing during a disorderly transition: Energetics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... whichever trajectory we're on in the long term. In Australia we have been walloped by extreme bushfires and floods in the last few years so we're starting to see the signs. The withdrawal of insurance cover from some areas and high premiums in ...

ASIC considering wider lens for greenwashing focus

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
ASIC is considering widening its greenwashing focus to include net zero statements, use of terms like "carbon neutral" and the scope and application of investment exclusions and screens. "Our enforcement actions in response to concerns of greenwashing ...

Australian Ethical backs infrastructure debt funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... Australia. The fund will provide senior debt finance to 6-8 battery projects with a total capacity of 1.5-2GW over the next few years. The Energy Transition Fund's first two investments are loans to the Neoen Capital Battery and Genex Bouldercombe ...

PRI, CFA Institute and GSIA agree to common RI definitions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... former chair of GSIA and CEO of the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA), a member of GSIA. "We set out a few years ago to bring it these definitions even closer together, because we've been seeing how, in the context of global capital ...

Fears grow around greenwashing litigation protections

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
Treasury's proposed three-year moratorium on private litigation related to Scope 3 reporting as part of its proposed mandatory climate-related financial disclosure package has raised fears that it would give companies the green light to greenwash. ...

Investors press Boral for clarity on net zero ambitions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... and New Zeleand research Vas Kolesnikoff. "We're recommending against big sign-ons and retentions," he said. "There were a few big sign-ons this year, and it's this simple - we know some shareholders say they don't like sign-ons, others say they don't ...

Preparing to take advantage of the critical mineral story

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... resources. Our current resources companies - or a lot of them - if we don't do anything, will not be competitive in the next few years internationally. "We need to work out how to decarbonize our exports and how we value add with all our abundant renewable ...

Two-thirds of boards lack ESG understanding: PwC

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
Just one-third of corporate boards have a strong understanding of ESG risks affecting their companies, just a quarter report a robust sense of carbon emissions and even less of their company's climate risk or strategy. Half (51%) of directors say their ...