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Engagement a tool for investment stewardship: RIAA conference

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2016  |  NEWS
... you're keeping those tools too close to home. I understand why - the fact is that the Australian market has a more domestic bias than other markets in the world. Now, if we can believe the experts, that bias is going to lessen over the next several years ...

Disconnects holding back gender diversity: EY report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... gender parity, compared to 7% of women. Meanwhile, female respondents identified an unsupportive culture (28%), organisational bias (28%) and the conflicts of raising a family (24%) as their key obstacles. It is important for governance purposes for ...

Workplace diversity a driver of innovation: DCA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
Workplace diversity and inclusion are drivers of innovation, according to Diversity Council Australia (DCA). Lisa Annese, CEO, Diversity Council Australia Picking up on the release of the government's National Innovation and Science Agenda, DCA pressed ...

Combet calls for return of carbon pricing policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... contestability. That's the sort of path that we're on at the moment - a higher cost approach." Combet acknowledged his partisan bias. He also noted that he currently serves as a director of IFM Investors and ME Bank, and noted that investments will be ...

Lonsec: responsible investment equity funds outperform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... mainstream, broader benchmarks, he added. "ESG funds by their nature tend to be a little more defensive and have a quality bias, and quality as an investment style has been in favour since the global financial crisis, so that's obviously helped as well," ...

JBWere: private ancillary funds increase in size, distributions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... come in with their own views, and they are often aware that they're managing money for charitable donations," he said. "The bias is towards being quite conservative with PAFs. The exception to that rule is those people in PAFs who are very long term ...

Diversity Council Australia measures the bamboo ceiling

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... cites four main barriers preventing people of Asian cultural background from ascending in Australian companies - cultural bias and stereotyping, westernised leadership models, lack of relationship capital, and "the case for culture not understood." Respondents ...

Ethinvest model portfolios continue to outperform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
Proprietary model ASX50 and ASX100 portfolios developed by investment advisory firm Ethinvest outperformed mainstream indices by wide margins over the past one and two year periods, according to the firm. Trevor Thomas, Ethinvest managing director Ethinvest's ...

GRI undergoing governance process to become standard setter

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... around whether you can be independent and have an independent due process, and is that even possible as all parties bring some bias," Whitaker said. "There is also some concern that if GRI is adopted by governments in regulation that it would become ...

CDP calls for corporate stewardship to manage water risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... 'within the fence line' focus may be attributed to a tendency to apply carbon mitigation strategies to water, coupled with a bias to tackle the most readily achievable targets first - water efficiency in direct operations," CDP said in the report. "Due ...