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Modern slavery, Indigenous heritage, climate change top agenda: Paradice IM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
... investment teams business analysis." Paradice has developed engagement tools for meeting with company management, aligning materiality issues to the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) framework. Varcoe points to the issues of modern slavery ...

S&P Dow Jones launches new ESG indices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2021  |  NEWS
... Aristocrats Indices include a layer of sustainability screens, reflecting the market's growing recognition of the financial materiality and impact of ESG issues on corporate balance sheets." Each of the S&P ESG Dividend Aristocrats indices measures the ...

When ESG improvement comes at a cost: MFS Investment Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... this, because there are some industries where this is going to be challenging and potentially bankrupting." Financial materiality needs to be integrated in ESG considerations, because of ESG issues impacts on financial asset prices, Wilson said. Wilson ...

Integrating impact investing in listed equity portfolios

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... sector, what qualifies a stock as social or environmentally positive, and we will invest in companies where there is materiality and measurability of impact. Specifically, we will look for the majority of revenues or profits tied to one of our impact ...

DWS to use advisory board to accelerate ESG activity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... Addressing risks such as climate change are not "nice to haves", but rather essential considerations of financial materiality, she said. "We have a specific data tool that we call our ESG Engine, which takes data from multiple data providers," Kuijpers ...

WBCSD survey to chart stakeholder engagement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... (WBCSD), in collaboration with DNV GL, has issued a survey aimed at gathering insights into how stakeholder engagement, materiality and risk management can support board-level decision-making. The joint initiative between WBCSD and DNV GL, a global quality ...

Medibank issues first sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... consequences, which goes to business strategy. "Climate is an interesting one for us," she said. 'We've done our second materiality assessment. The thing that's was interesting for us is in that assessment, climate was not one of the higher-rating material ...

ESG scores linked to higher stock valuation: Bank of America

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... factors in companies weigh differently over time, and relative to asset class, Chopra noted. During 2020, the relative materiality of greenhouse gas emissions has fallen, whereas labour practices, employee health and safety, and supply chain management ...

ESG integration policy brings consistency, innovation: JPMAM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... Farrell said. "The third is the ESG integration of all of our teams, which we will continue to look to improve - a materiality framework, a scoring framework, a database, and it will be interesting to see the evolution around that," she added. "Then ...

COVID-19 risks and impacts disclosure "unprecedented challenge": AICD

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... testing, which can be a useful way for entities to describe the different circumstances they're in, applying the lens of materiality and what they know. You don't want to disclose speculative information, you have to ground yourself in the information ...