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ASX200 boards still below 30% gender diversity target: AICD

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2019  |  NEWS
... Telecom Limited Earlier this year, The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) updated its gender diversity policy to extend to ASX201-300 companies, meaning that ASX200 boards with one or zero women directors could face a vote against ...

TelstraSuper joins Australian Asset Owner Stewardship Code

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2019  |  NEWS
... not, why not' basis: 1. Publicly disclose how they approach their stewardship responsibilities. 2. Publicly disclose their policy for voting at company meetings and voting activity. 3. Engage with companies either directly, indirectly (for example, via ...

G7 Ministers statement supports growth of the impact investing market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2019  |  NEWS
... France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States also said they "stress the need to create enabling policy environments in order to help drive impactful investments towards developing countries and fragile economies. We support ...

CEFC, Ironstone Capital create Warada Capital, specialist joint venture

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
... capabilities in the local renewable energy sector, which is currently dominated by offshore participants. This is pivotal to our policy objective of supporting the orderly transition of the Australian economy to a decarbonised future." The CEFC has developed ...

Fidelity International develops proprietary sustainability ratings system

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
... in more than 16,000 company meetings a year the firm said. The ratings will be updated annually or following a change of policy or an exceptional event at the company. The proprietary ratings have been fully integrated into Fidelity's investment process ...

MSCI creates Climate Change Indexes tilted to low carbon transition

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
... companies with carbon intensive products than the underlying index, MSCI said. The indexes can be used as an investment policy benchmark, as an underlying index for passive products such as ETFs, as a benchmark for asset manager performance, and as a ...

ASX200 hits target of 30% women on boards: ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
... only one, and more than one-quarter of ASX200-300 companies have zero women boards, AVSI said. ACSI recently released a policy proposal calling for listed companies to set a timeframe for achieving gender balanced boards, which it says can be met with ...

Vanessa Zimmerman launches Pillar Two human rights consultancy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
Vanessa Zimmerman has launched Pillar Two, a consultancy that will assist companies with human rights policy development and risk management, as well as assisting with human rights and Modern Slavery reporting. Vanessa Zimmerman, founder, Pillar Two ...

Future Super divests from companies with no women on boards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2019  |  NEWS
... have not presented plans to improve their diversity. Kirstin Hunter, managing director, Future Super Future Fund set a policy of excluding companies without women on their boards in 2018, and began engaging with invested companies lacking women on their ...

CFSGAM to divest from tobacco products across portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2019  |  NEWS
... that their group-wide exposure to the tobacco sector is less than 1% of assets under management, and has introduced the policy with "a view to full divestment of current holdings by (or before) the end of 2019." The new policy is overseen by the FSI ...