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Investors scrutinise Australia-first gender pay gap data

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 27 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... salary gender pay gap is 23%, and the median total remuneration gender pay gap is 26%. The gender pay gap costs the Australian economy $51.8 billion every year, according to minister for women Katy Gallagher. WGEA CEO Mary Wooldridge said gender pay ...

Personal views influence climate decision-making

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
Australian and Asia Pacific financiers see reputational risk as a greater concern than the social and environmental impacts of the companies in which they invest. Personal views on climate are influencing investment decision-making, with financiers ...

Rest makes another impact investment allocation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... Fund, with specialist private equity firm ARCHIMED. "Sustainability is becoming more important to forward-thinking Australian Institutional investors, such as Rest, who are pursuing strong returns in investments that are also expected to positively contribute ...

Family businesses see ESG driving future: Grant Thornton

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... sustainability strategy has an extremely positive impact on their business. Grant Thornton sent the survey to more than 2,000 Australian family businesses in May 2023 and received over 280 responses. The majority of respondents owned business with turnover ...

New Forests invests in Thai peat forest

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... TAFF2 for the development of the project. Investors in TAFF2 include Mitsui, Nomura, Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Australian government, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank (SuMi TRUST), Temasek and TotalEnergies. Last ...

Australian Unity to assist as trustees in compensation deal

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
Australian Unity has been engaged in distributing $27.5m federal government compensation to falsely imprisoned Indonesian children. Australian Unity Trustees will assist in distributing the money to "as many as 240 Indonesian victims, who were wrongfully ...

AI trumps climate as chief risk factor: economists

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... global situation to the 1930s, and "that should make you feel very nervous," she said. Brian Parker, chief economist at Australian Retirement Trust, also speaking at the event, said his "hopes are not very high" on geopolitical risk. AI has huge implications ...

FS Sustainability opens final voting round for ESG Power50

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... live. Readers of FS Sustainability along with FS Super - The Journal of Superannuation Management and FS Advice - The Australian Journal of Financial Planning, as well as the broader Australian business community will have a say in recognising the breadth ...

Decarbonising aluminium key priority for Capral

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... plus aluminium manufacturing were about 34 Mt CO2-e, which was 7% of Australia's national emissions, according to the Australian Aluminium Council's February submission to Treasury on forthcoming mandatory climate-related financial disclosures. About ...

Global managers drop out, scale back on Climate Action 100+

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... managers that are leaving or changing up their relationship with Climate Action 100+ were not lead investors on any Australian-based engagements, local organisers have confirmed. Last week, J.P. Morgan Asset Management and State Street Global Advisors ...