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UN GCNA appoints Pru Bennett to board of directors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020  |  NEWS
The UN Global Compact Network Australia (GCNA) has appointed corporate governance expert Pru Bennett to its board of directors. Kylie Porter, GCNA executive director Bennett is a former managing director of Blackrock with more than 20 years' experience ...

Sustainability faces greatest test in response to coronavirus

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... want to ensure that business continues to pay close attention to the management of their environmental, social and governance risks to ensure the interests of all stakeholders, particularly employees, are protected when supply chains come under the sort ...

ESG indices, products faring relatively better in coronavirus response

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... focused on companies that are not only sustainable from the environmental perspective, but also has been focused on governance issues which are quite important as well," Vynokur said. "We have seen in particular that the energy sector, which is a significant ...

Thinking about the future of work in the time of coronavirus

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... currently witnessing COVID-19 acting as a very effective catalyst for a major workplace transformation," said Megan Motto, Governance Institute of Australia CEO. "We are seeing organisations reacting swiftly to this current challenge, examining how they ...

Commonwealth Bank provides sustainability-linked finance to Wesfarmers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... business have never been more important to customers, investors, regulators and the community. "Environmental, social and governance considerations are very much a top priority for many Australian businesses today, with sustainability really being thought ...

Praemium enhances ESG tools with SMA, research

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
Platform provider Praemium has "significantly enhanced" its approach to environmental, social and governance (ESG) by adding the Australian Ethical Australian Shares Portfolio to the Praemium SMA and providing ESG research from Sustainalytics. Damian ...

KPMG Australia acquires Action Sustainability Asia Pacific

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... deep sustainability perspective, and tech capability, one I think is a great complement to what we're doing from a governance and management approach." KPMG has been engaging strongly with clients on human rights-related issues, prompted by the introduction ...

Cromwell Property Group reports on sustainability progress for 2019

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... Cromwell Property Group achieved a FY19 Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) score of 86/100, including a governance score of 91/100, and a rating of AA (on a scale of AAA-CCC) in the 2019 MSCI ESG Ratings assessment, classifying it as ...

Industry coalition organises Principles for Sustainable Securities Lending

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... member of the executive committee at ICSF. "Those principles are really a first attempt to set high level corporate governance objectives, if you like to give beneficial owners guidance as to how securities lending could remain clearly aligned with the ...

PGIM charts rise of corporate "profit with purpose" mindset

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... increasingly adopting a "profit with purpose" mindset and investors should be aware of relevant environmental, social and governance (ESG) information as part of their investment process, according to global fund manager PGIM. Taimur Hyat, chief operating ...