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ASFI identifies six critical challenges for sustainable finance roadmap

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... redirect the capital we need to," O'Connor said. Similar initiatives have been conducted in the European Union, the UK, Canada, China, Norway and Indonesia. "We're in a position where we're really fortunate b/c we can look internationally at a whole ...

Sustainalytics rates unmanaged ESG risk in ASX200

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2019  |  NEWS
... benchmark has slightly less unmanaged environmental, social and governance (ESG) risk than benchmarks in the US, UK and Canada, with the exception of the Australian materials sector, which has relatively more risk than counterparts, according to new ...

G7 Ministers statement supports growth of the impact investing market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2019  |  NEWS
... and efficient financing approach" to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In the statement, ministers from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States also said they "stress the need to create enabling ...

Global responsible investment assets top US$30 trillion: GSIA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019  |  NEWS
... brings together the results from regional market studies by the responsible investment forums of Europe, the US, Japan, Canada, Australia & New Zealand. It also includes data on the African responsible investing market and highlights from several countries ...

Australian Sustainable Finance Initiative sets ambitious investment agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
... High-Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance and the UK's Green Finance Taskforce, as well as initiatives in Norway and Canada, while broadening the remit to include the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) O'Connor said. "We've lifted the ambition ...

ACSI updates gender diversity policy to apply to ASX200 companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
... the first country in the OECD region to achieve significant targets without regulatory intervention, ahead of UK, US and Canada," said Nicola Wakefield Evans, Chair 30% Club. "It's been proven that gender diversity can be reached without quotas and intervention ...

Australia, EU Free Trade Agreement includes SDGs, climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... responsible trade and investment policy", and has integrated sustainable development into FTAs with other countries, including Canada, Central America, Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador, Georgia, Moldova, Singapore, South Korea, Ukraine, and Vietnam. While ...

Big data, ESG ratings can combine to unlock investment return: TruValue

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2018  |  NEWS
... computers to analyse Japanese and German, and will be pushing its coverage to smaller cap countries, such as Australia, Canada, and the UK, Malinak said.

Digitalization a megatrend with risks as well as opportunities: Morphosis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
... Alphabet, and the community and the media became quite anxious about what's happening to the data - is it going out of Canada, is it going straight to Google? That's caused some serious problems for that project. As we make our buildings and precincts ...

CAER urges investors to consider ESG risks of cannabis companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018  |  NEWS
With Canada and several large American states legalising the recreational use of cannabis, responsible investors should look to establishing policies addressing the emerging cannabis industry, according to CAER. In a recent article, CAER's Jacob Laurent ...