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Industry reacts to ASIC greenwashing guidance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
... is fundamental that the sustainability-related label of a product reflects the substance of the product itself. There is a risk of misleading if a fund's name includes sustainability-related terminology, but sustainability-related factors are not ...

ASIC: improve greenwashing disclosure or risk penalty

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
... senior executive leader, corporations Claire LaBouchardiere summarised the regulator's recent activities on climate change risk disclosure and governance as well as greenwashing. Information sheet 271 is aimed at managed funds, corporate directors ...

Brambles sets 2040 net zero target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
Logistics company Brambles has announced that it will achieve its net zero target by 2040, ten years earlier than first pledged. As part of that new deadline, Brambles has set 2030 interim targets approved by the Science Based Target Initiative (SBTi) ...

HESTA pushes legal alignment to UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous People

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
... governments to create legislation aligned with UNDRIP that will provide investors certainty about the level of human rights-based risk at companies in which they invest," Blakey said. "The application of the UNDRIP in legislation will create alignment ...

ANZ creates head of environmental markets role

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
... was a partner. He has almost three decades of investment banking and funds experience, including senior roles in finance, risk and,arkets at global firms such as Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns and Deutsche Bank. He also helped establish Cyclades Preservation ...

Podcast: How to create and communicate a decarbonisation strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
In this episode brought to you by MFS Investment Management, we discuss decarbonisation, and how a net-zero strategy can be used to communicate not only investment strategies, but also a narrative belief to key groups including clients, super fund members ...

Qantas Super in $2bn climate risk mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
... emissions across Qantas Super's investment portfolio by 2025, from a baseline of 30 June 2020. "Climate change represents a risk we need to mitigate and manage and also represents other opportunities," noted Qantas Super CIO Andrew Spence. "In May last ...

Alexis Cheang joins TCorp

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
... ensure that robust integration of ESG factors and good investment stewardship have a meaningful impact on our clients' risk-adjusted returns," she said. At Mercer, Cheang was the partner responsible for responsible investment for eight years. During ...

Millennials, Gen X lead impact investing demand

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
... "It really comes down to having those conversations with clients and understanding what they're trying to achieve from a risk/return and sustainability perspective, and we're still working on the 'and sustainability' perspective." This suggests to Bratton ...

Calls for transformation, climate skill in AGL board renewal

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
... those things focused on them in the last couple of months." The analysis reveals that climate change is siloed as a separate risk issue and not integrated into the overall company strategy and risk management approach. "That sector has been, and is ...