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Government to establish $1 bn National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2017  |  NEWS
... role to play in establishing metrics to measure social and economic impact of affordable housing, as well as report on the data collected to those metrics. "The other thing that excites SVA is around how we're focusing on tracking and measuring the social ...

APRA hires lead for new team that will consider cyber-security risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2017  |  NEWS
... Financial Regulation Division of the European Central Bank, and previously worked at APRA between 2008 and 2015. Cyber- and data security ebbs and flows as a question relating to corporate governance. Karin Halliday, AMP Capital corporate governance ...

Directors speak to evolving, expanding role of corporate boards at ACSI conference

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2017  |  NEWS
... achieved a significant overhaul of culture in his first three years, and merited reward for what he achieved. The issue of data security and how customer information is used and guarded also came up, specifically addressed at Schwartz. "I think that ...

IRRCi report analyses ESG integration behaviour of institutional investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2017  |  NEWS
... seen tremendous development in the last three to five years, but there are still a lot of challenges with integrating the data into valuation models, stock selection models, DCFs, and from a bottom-up standpoint, we're still in the very early days of ...

Majority of investors believe ESG-focused investment improve returns: SSgA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2017  |  NEWS
... benchmark performance against peers, while 56% said the accurate assessment of external ESG asset managers was a key issue. "Data is improving," Anderson said. "But it is important understand how good you are and how good the strategy is at creating ...

Experts discuss impact of Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures guidelines

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 APR 2017  |  NEWS
... Sarah Barker, special counsel, Minter Ellison Fiona Wild, vice President, climate change and sustainability, BHP Billiton and data preparer, TCFD, Mardi McBrien, managing director, CDSB, and Chi Woo, partner, sustainability services, KPMG. The panel ...

Chart: CDP assessment of APRA-regulated entities' climate disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 APR 2017  |  NEWS
As APRA regulated entities digest the implications of Geoff Summerhayes' recent speech, The Sustainability Report asked CDP for the scores of ASX-listed companies in the financial sector as a means to determine which companies are publicly disclosing ...

Majority of APAC investors have an ESG investment framework: State Street

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 APR 2017  |  NEWS
... from ESG investments The biggest barrier to investors at the moment is a lack of "transparent, standardised and quality ESG data, the study found. "The lack of standards for measuring ESG performance is the number one barrier across regions for ESG integration," ...

Clean Energy Finance Corporation holds Clean Energy Innovators Demo Day

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAR 2017  |  NEWS
... the main reasons the CEFC was created," she said in remarks given to media. "These barriers can be in the form of lack of data, lack of demonstration effect and lack of experience. Businesses and households are already taking action to manage energy ...

Government issues discussion paper on social impact investing market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2017  |  NEWS
... active in developing and supporting impact investing initiatives and vehicles such as social impact bonds, there's a role for data sharing and replicating and expanding what works at the state level, rather than re-inventing the wheel. "You'll find that ...