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Setting the standards for diversity within funds management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
As companies in the financial services sector grapple with increasing diversity within their ranks as much as they focus on diversity in their invested companies, one global fund manager speaks to the steps it is taking to enhance their approach to ...

More women on ASX200 boards, but lag in CEO and chair roles: ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
Women now hold more than a third of board seats on the ASX200, but still lag in chair and chief executive roles, according to analysis by the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI). ACSI released its research in time for International ...

Hiring culturally diverse women improves organisational leadership

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... success of initiatives such as the 30% Club, which focused on engaging with companies to appoint women to a minimum of 30% of board positions, and suggested that this target could be extended into senior management positions as well. She also suggested ...

CEFC finances Tesla megapack battery project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) has invested $160 million in a big battery project in Victoria. The CEFC senior debt facility will finance the design, construction and operation of Neoen's 300 MW Victorian Big Battery (VBB), which will ...

Assessing climate risk in corporate bond portfolios

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... have a quantifiable target yet, in which case we would look at the management track record and at how incentives such as board compensation are linked to achieving a greener business model, Gazzola said. "The first stage is that dialogue, to understand ...

Rio Tinto commits to climate vote at AGM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... reporting, joining Glencore, Unilever, Aena and Moody's. "We meet with the Climate Action 100+ (CA100+) group regularly at the Board, Executive Committee and climate team levels, and we value their co-ordination of investor engagement," Rio said in a ...

Opinion: 2021 Reboot: three ways to innovate for impact

WARWICK PEEL, GORDON NOBLE  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... Environmental, Social and Technology mindset and implementation plan? The "G" in ESG is commonly thought of as representing board governance. Replacing G with T reflects that technology and innovation need to be the responsibility of a company board. ...

Perennial sustainable small cap fund shows double-digit returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... of AGM season on diversity and inclusion in small to mid-cap companies, contacting companies to flag concerns on level of board and management diversity ahead of AGM season. "We've started to use January to reach out to companies where we think they ...

Neuberger Berman joins global diversity initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... (NAIC), a network of diverse-owned private equity firms and hedge funds, as well as the Thirty Percent Coalition, to support board diversity in the U.S. "The ILPA's Diversity in Action Initiative provides a unique opportunity to collaborate with ...

Scentre Group to increase disclosure for cleaning contracts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... about the issues, wider context, and then we say we're seeing certain things where there's non-compliance across the board, or this is an issue area in a lot of other buildings, how does it look here? We also offer an option to join the union." ...