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VFMC hires to investment stewardship team

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... that broadly map to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Those priority themes cover governance and culture, climate risk management, modern slavery, human rights, ethical supply chains and labour standards, occupational health and safety, and ...

Podcast: Uncovering corporate modern slavery risk with Clare Bartram

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... Greener Way, we speak with Clare Bartram an ESG specialist on modern slavery at ISS ESG. Clare discusses where companies have risk to modern slavery, why it matters for investors and the outlook for enhanced regulation and investor engagement. Nearly ...

ASX300 upping the ante on ESG reporting: Melior

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
ASX300 companies are taking action on carbon intensity and net zero targets while showing only incremental improvements on social indicators like gender diversity on boards and executive leadership teams, according to Melior Investment Management. In ...

Companies lag on digital transformation: Governance Institute

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... report's findings are based on a survey of 481 CEOs/ C-suite executives, non-executive directors, and senior governance and risk professionals. Participants came from a variety of institutions - people from not for profits account for 36% of respondents ...

FM Global to provide climate resilience discount

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... colleagues and communities. "The resilience credit is a response to our clients looking for more ways of managing climate related risk," said Greg Duncan, FM Global vice president client service manager Australian operations. Duncan noted that FM Global ...

Does Canberra's agenda align with sustainable investment?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... biodiversity - they're all areas that a group of investors have been looking at, working on and ben interested in from the material risk and opportunities it brings to the portfolio," Pettigrew said. "The way we're seeing the change of government is ...

APRA releases climate risk assessment results

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... according to the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA). APRA has published the findings of a voluntary climate risk self-assessment survey conducted across the entities APRA regulates. 64 medium to large institutions responded to the survey ...

Singapore to issue inaugural sovereign green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
Singapore will issue its first sovereign green bond - the Green Singapore Government Securities (Infrastructure). The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced that the green bond will shortly be launched via a syndicated book-building process ...

V-Square launches ESG index strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... that the conundrum for a lot of Australian asset owners is to be lower fees, better value for members, while taking less risk and integrating climate, and all of that still bringing performance," said V-Square co-founder and president Mamadou-Abou Sarr. ...

NGS Super divests from oil and gas producers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... introduced the modelling that we needed to perform across each individual holding to assess the two risks of stranded asset risk and physical asset risk, and we were also in discussions with our active managers, what their position was in terms of the ...