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Advisers integrating positive impact into investment choices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
Wealth manager report integrating positive social and environmental impact integration into investment choices to meet growing demand in Australia and around the world. According to bfinance's Wealth Manager Investment Survey, globally, 80% of wealth ...

Responsible investment surges past $1tn mark: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... outflows and they're putting at risk consumers' best interests, perhaps unintentionally. "This could come at the cost of the social license of the responsible investment industry, and there is also a small risk that they could break Australian consumer ...

NSW Land Registry Services in $300m sustainability linked loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... custodians of NSW land and titling information, and trust is built on doing what's right both for our customers and for the social and environmental fabric that strengthens NSW and Australia," said NSW Land Registry Services CEO Adam Bennett. "Covid-19 ...

Greenwashing a challenge to sustainable investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... said. "To do this, we will assess companies across various measures based on over 700 academic and industry studies of social impacts and externalities." The tool will allow Schroders to measure a company's impact across 70 categories of data, and ...

Wealth managers under pressure on returns, ESG: Accenture

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... generators to being holistic stewards of capital, focusing on returns as just one of many metrics across the environmental, social and governance (ESG) spectrum. This same ethical compass shift will likely also become pervasive across the wider capital ...

Conscious Investment Management grows team

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... investment market more broadly, which is increasingly showing the power of financial capital to have a sustainable, positive social and environmental impact." Jordan has worked on transactions spanning public and private mergers and acquisitions, growth-equity ...

CEFC invests in specialist disability accommodation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... sustainable specialist disability housing means lower energy bills and more comfortable homes, improving financial, health and social outcomes for tenants, as well as reducing carbon emissions." Houses to be developed by the platform will target an average ...

Gender pay gaps "sabotage" diversity, profits: UniSA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... representation - different perspectives, women tend to be more risk averse than men, women are more willing to engage in corporate social responsibility activities." These positives help enhance shareholder return in listed companies. "But what we're ...

Forrest reiterates call for net zero target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... public campaign, which will focus on opportunities for consumers, investors and workers in the renewable energy sector, social researcher Rebecca Huntley presented findings on renewable energy gathered through focus group interactions noting that people ...

Census "a missed opportunity" on key questions: Diversity Council Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
The Australian Census is a "missed opportunity" in omitting questions relating to sexual orientation and gender identity, as well as options for identifying ethnic ancestry, according to the Diversity Council of Australia. "The Census is an incredibly ...