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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 ...

SASB, GRI announce collaborative workplan for further understanding

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... sustainability reporting, which are designed to fulfill different purposes and are based on different approaches to materiality, the organisations note. SASB's industry-specific standards identify the subset of sustainability-related risks and opportunities ...

Aberdeen Standard Investments launches smaller companies fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... score will be drawing data from a number of external providers but using our internal research as well, with a full materiality screen," Welsh-Rose said. "That includes a governance and operational score, trying to tackle the issue of not just the policies ...

First Sentier Investors launch Modern Slavery Toolkit

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... salience of human rights, which is different to how they'd prioritise other ESG risk management, which is more around materiality." Identifying risks from modern slavery is hampered by the fact that the data around modern slavery risks is not comprehensive ...

Demand for climate aware, ESG investment: State Street Global Advisors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... 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. Additionally ...

State Street Global Advisors launch Climate ESG International Equity Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... 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. Additionally ...

Accounting bodies develop guidelines for disclosing to SDGs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... and the way of doing things." The final version of the recommendations included enhancements to the definition of materiality, and the inclusion of materiality as a fundamental concept, Adams said. In the public feedback that was disclosed along with ...