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Accounting for or managing: experts debate managing impact at RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
... happen to coincide with where the market rate return is," Klopp said. "We have experienced this quite a few times, you know. People hear about impact and implicitly, they assume you're going to go to Africa with their pension saving because that's where ...

Digitalization a megatrend with risks as well as opportunities: Morphosis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
... now become sustainable. "At the moment, the discussion around digitalization is a very immature discourse," Carter said. "People talk about job automation and they're very flippant. They say any technological wave will lose some jobs, will gain some ...

Insight Investment analyses ESG factors affecting sovereign credit

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
... less likely that we can go in as a manager and lobby. It's more a higher level type of engagement with the aid of more people, more voices and more influencers like ourselves and other groups." Longer-term trends in ESG factors can be more difficult ...

Impact Investing Australia to administer $7m Australian government fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
... the capital granted," Madhaven said. "These businesses are now able to increase their contribution to better outcomes for people and planet. We have seen 3D printed solutions for people living with disability, and employment solutions for the long-term ...

The pros and cons of using ESG signals in shorting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... social issues," Carlsson-Sweeney said. "I must say, over the years, I've focused on the S issues, and it's annoyed me that people have referred to social as a fluffy sector. If a business model relies on underpaid workers or weak behaviour on social ...

Core Civic, GEO Group flagged for ESG controversies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... organised under the Families Belong Together umbrella, the goal of the campaign is to slow down or halt the policy of detaining people who attempt to seek asylum at the US/Mexico border, or who attempt to cross the US/Mexican border, by getting the banks ...

ACSI finalist for 2018 Human Rights Business Award

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... on how companies and investors can address these risks, we aim to make a practical difference to the lives of vulnerable people and communities in Australia and around the world," Davidson said. "More broadly, properly managing human rights risks helps ...

A4S to address sustainability, disclosure at World Congress of Accountants

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... supports facilitating the discussion towards greater transparency. "A4S's role is to facilitate the discussion and bring people together that might normally not meet, to really progress things," Fries said. "As an example around that, on the climate ...

Diverse boards can provide "profitability moat" to future returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018  |  NEWS
... on average. AXA IM Rosenberg Equities calls board diversity a "profitability moat", saying that more diverse groups of people "are generally able to problem solve better than homogenous groups." "Our study shows that board diversity is an important characteristic ...

Future Business Generation outlines Millennial climate risk concerns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2018  |  NEWS
... risk, as the first order level," he said. "That's fine, but if those emissions lay outside in the economy and there are people who want to mitigate climate change, there are other points of the portfolio that need to be managed. If negative screening ...