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Morningstar boosts ESG focus with new hire

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
Morningstar has appointed Michelle Cameron as the commercial leader for Sustainalytics in Australia. Cameron has decades of experience leading sales, customer management and service teams in financial services with a focus on sustainable finance and ...

Sustainable Finance Roadmap to turbocharge investment

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
Investor groups welcome the Australian Government's plan to mobilise private capital to the net zero transition, modernise financial markets and maximise the economic opportunity of sustainability. The Sustainable Finance Roadmap aims to supercharge ...

Sustainable Finance Taxonomy open for consultation

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
The Australian Sustainable Finance Institute (ASFI) today released its first consultation on sustainable finance taxonomy, a set of definitions that make it easier for financiers to fund sustainable assets and activities. ASFI is consulting on the draft ...

ESG demand still high for advisers

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
Financial advisers find sustainable investments appealing to many of their clients, despite ongoing cost-of-living pressures and political differences. Ethical investment leaders spoke at the Financial Standard's inaugural Future Investing Forum ...

RIAA: Fund flows, greenwashing, AI and disability inclusion

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
In the midst of massive change for the industry, both companies and financiers are grappling with what to do next. To help practitioners navigate changing tides, the Responsible Investment Association of Australasia (RIAA) held a conference in Sydney ...

Closing the Gap in First Nations investing

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
Indigenous communities' needs must be prioritised in investment decisions, and trust must be built through representation. Colonisation has had a profound impact on Indigenous peoples' identity and knowledge, panellists at the Responsible Investment ...

Companies warned to disclose nature risks

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
Organisations must assess their nature-related dependencies, impacts, risks, and opportunities and disclose their findings to all stakeholders. Nature-related dependencies pose material financial risks for organisations, Tony Goldner, executive director ...

Younger members drive demand

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
UniSuper lifted the veil on the appeal of sustainable investment options to the fund's younger members at the RIAA conference on Thursday. In a remarkable sign of transparency in front of its peers, UniSuper chief executive Peter Chun shared member ...

On biodiversity, a 143-year-old museum comes to the rescue

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
In the quest for impeccable biodiversity data, a trillion-dollar fund manager found an unlikely partner in a 143-year-old museum best known for 'Dippy', the dinosaur. At the RIAA conference yesterday, a panel was assembled to talk about the ...

Disability inclusion is a financial issue

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
Following the ramping up of focus on gender, racial and ethnic, and LGBTQI+ inclusion in organisations, disability inclusion has emerged as the missing puzzle piece in the campaign for better diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). There are 4.4 million ...