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Casting a wide net: ending modern slavery in fisheries

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... migrant workers coming to Thailand looking for work, and they've been promised to get this fantastic job so they can send money back to their families. Then what happens is, their passport is taken away from them, and they're sent [out] onto ...

Hybrid working can reduce carbon emissions by up to 90%

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... to employees. In a recent study from IWG, 88% of workers said that flexible working was important in a new role to save money and achieve a better work/life balance. In a similar survey targeting job seekers in the Greater Bay Area Hong Kong, IWG found ...

Modern slavery on the rise 10 years after Rana Plaza

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... "significant gap" between wages for many workers in the apparel sector in Bangladesh and the living wage - the amount of money people need to survive. "The pandemic has impacted vulnerable workers who were further exposed," she said. "Safety is one piece ...

$500bn investment needed to decarbonise NEM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... Australia has one of the largest private capital pools in the world with super funds," he said. "We don't want to crowd that money out. We want to galvanise it by having effectively a renewed focus on public private partnerships where the government ...

The "Wild West" of "blue" investing

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... environment. It's this translation that is most important to uncovering what Chambers termed the "invisible" blue economy. Money, Landsbergen said, is "a tool that we can use to get attention and hopefully share some of those decisions to the outcomes ...

The four-day work week - will it work?

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... Flexibility and more [personal] time is very, very appealing to many employees. Sometimes flexibility is worth more than money." Lisa Tracy, manager of recruitment firm Moir Group's ESG division, said she sees an emerging trend of job seekers prioritizing ...

Fink counts the cost of "easy money" in annual letter

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... Larry Fink warned that dominos may be starting to fall as global economies count the price of more than a decade of easy money in his annual letter to investors. In a letter where ESG and climate change took a backseat to concerns over inflation, fears ...

Resource-efficient companies more resilient: Impax AM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... compelling opportunities for mainstream investors," Simm said. "You don't have to be a responsible/impact/ESG investor to make money from solar or electric vehicles." Impax Asset Management has an investment philosophy of long-term investing "with an ...

First Super taps IFM Investors for ESG mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... manufacturing facilities. "The comments came to us, we think you're doing a good job, but we don't want you guys making money out of exploitation of other workers. That's really important to them. That's the feedback we get from our members, particularly ...

ASIC issues Indigenous Financial Services Framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2023  |  NEWS
... First Nations Peoples and that a contemporary financial services sector embraces culturally safe models and concepts of money," she said. Delahunty said she was curious to see who leads in response to this framework. She pointed out that the framework ...