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Heritage Bank enacts environmental, social, governance policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... banks have close down their branches, using a model Heritage first developed in 1999. "They've come to fruition because people in the community with some foresight over 20 years ago saw that banks are a lifeblood and major banks are pulling out of local ...

ARENA allocates $2.17m to Alice Springs grid project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... renewable energy generation and faces "a unique challenge in overcoming system strength issues to serve approximately 30,000 people, with communities stretching as far as 130km from the town," ARENA noted. The $9.3 million project will address technical ...

MBS launches Centre for Sustainability and Business

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... our decisions, let's get this as more business as usual and that is where we're seeing much of the traffic in terms of people wanting to help on that front." The centre is also aimed at educating future business leaders, Hoetker said. "Then we also think ...

Identifying exposures to modern slavery a key concern: Informed 365

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... isolation - geographic, social and/or linguistic. "COVID-19 is exacerbating challenges in this space," Bernhardt said. "People are vulnerable, they'll take up oppositions that they normally wouldn't, but they're economically desperate. There are more ...

Nuveen secures $150m in commitments for Global Impact Strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... investment in impact at that scale. It's a very simple motivation. We have the conviction that investing in solutions for people and climate brings strong risk-adjusted returns. The wider market has woken up to this in the past six years, but to us ...

State Street Global Advisors to list new ESG ETF on ASX

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... Australia, 64% of investors want financial advisers to offer them advice on how they can invest through ESG. "It's about giving people choice," Victor said. "When anyone makes an investment, any investment, they're doing it as a risk-return trade off ...

Increase in linking environmental, social metrics to remuneration: ISS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... reducing emissions, but they want to sell more renewables, which is a completely different issue. The question is, should people be incentivised for not polluting the world, or is this part of the day job and if they pollute the world, they should actually ...

Sefa selected as lender to government Coronavirus guarantee scheme

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... with looking out for regional, and rural communities that have been, even cut off digitally, and critically, preparing people for the future of work, helping them adapt so can they use technology to reach more people, and potentially find new revenue ...

First State Super-backed Victorian fund makes first investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... members." The aim of the initiative is to "help drive, high-skilled jobs in priority areas of the economy, including jobs for people who are unemployed, jobs for apprentices or jobs for people attempting to reskill," according to a statement by First ...

MSCI climate tool provides new data for private real estate assets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... aligned to the G20's Financial Stability Board's Taskforce on Climate-Related Disclosures (TCFD), MSCI said. "It allows people to analyse the portfolio in a standard and scalable way, but always relating it back to what it means for returns," Robson ...