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Australian execs see impacts of, responsibility for climate change: Deloitte

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... they highlight external stakeholders - predominately customers - and their employees. They're getting pressure from their people, they're getting pressure from markets, or they're seeing opportunity in the market, and they're gaining confidence in the ...

CEFC to provide finance for Bank Australia green home loan program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... largely as a result of heating, ventilation and air conditioning, lighting and hot water systems. "We're proud to reward people who choose to make their homes more sustainable through our Clean Energy Home Loan," said Damien Walsh, Bank Australia managing ...

Calculating the shorter, longer-term cost of bushfire

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... around 3%, which is made up of around 1.5% population growth and 1.5% productivity. However, the impacts of smoke haze on people's health can have a drag on productivity. Cacho cited a report that calculated that Singapore's economy incurred $1.83 billion ...

ASFI identifies six critical challenges for sustainable finance roadmap

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... value things that traditionally haven't been valued very well. We need some consistent and comparable frameworks for how people are reporting their impacts, and it sort of those tools of practice that are going to enable us to be able to value properly ...

Integrating ESG essential to infrastructure portfolio: First Sentier Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... by having engaged employees, and a track record of improving your safety, a track record of great governance in training people from the bottom up, that's how your business is worth something." Mills was recently in Australia, and discussed First Sentier's ...

Interest in responsible investing not limited to Gen Y: Franklin Templeton

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... investment matter-the return to the investor, as well as the benefit to the investee," Harrison said. "Evidently, many people recognise that their investable assets can serve as a tool to benefit the communities around them, and they can then see the ...

GRI launches tax reporting standard for comprehensive disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... fair and adequate tax system. "There is growing anger around the world at governments' inability to deal with the issues people care about, which is eroding trust in public institutions. The GRI Tax Standard is absolutely necessary to hold multinational ...

Creating a values-based financial advisory firm: FPA Congress

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... while both standards had references to the first six, they were missing references to property and dignity. "Connect with people using worldviews, ask for help with values, create the future firm with care given the change going on, and dignity," Hale ...

ESG engagement key to small cap value: Perennial Value Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... you have companies that have integrated policies and are focused on the area, but they're not as good as explaining to people. So you have ones that are ticking the boxes but aren't engaged, and then on the other hand, you have the ones who are engaged ...

Australian Ethical questions calls for limits on environmental activism

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... fuel activity, rather than talking about how to transition to a zero carbon emissions future," Palmer said. "Then you have people and organisations who are challenging companies on that. They're asking questions at AGMs, shutting forward shareholder ...