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Australia to introduce mandatory climate reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 13 DEC 2022  |  NEWS
... mandatory climate risk reporting standards as a first step towards a more ambitious sustainable finance strategy next year. Treasurer Jim Chalmers announced a consultation paper on climate risk reporting standards at a Sydney speech to the Australian ...

Carve outs for faith-based super funds are dead

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2022  |  NEWS
... invest members savings according to the best financial interest duty. Earlier this week, a spokesperson for assistant treasurer and minister for financial services Stephen Jones told Financial Standard : "We remain committed to providing Australians ...

US Dept of Labor green-lights ESG integration

JAMIE WILLIAMSON, RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2022  |  NEWS
... govern. In October, the state of Missouri pulled approximately US$500 million from BlackRock, with Republican State Treasurer Scott Fitzpatrick announcing that the Missouri State Employees' Retirement System (MOSERS) has sold all public equities ...

Regulatory roundup on key sustainability developments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2022  |  NEWS
... ESG-related regulatory actions have come up for discussion in the last week, including a commitment by the assistant treasurer to establish national standards for a green taxonomy, APRA flagging that their climate vulnerability assessment is likely to ...

Government commits to establishing green finance standards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2022  |  NEWS
Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones committed to working with the finance industry to establish national standards for a green taxonomy that will define sustainable finance in Australia. Jones stopped short of committing to legislating the forthcoming ...

Budget spotlights climate, gender and long-term development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2022  |  NEWS
... framework to integrate measures of wellbeing into future economic policy settings. The so-called mini-budget announced by Treasurer Jim Chalmers featured "hard decisions for hard times," but also fulfilled commitments announced by the Labor Party during ...

ASFI Summit to focus on sustainable finance progress, implementation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2022  |  NEWS
... Sustainable Finance Institute (ASFI) Summit in Sydney. The one-day summit will feature keynote addresses from Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services Stephen Jones as well as Monetary Authority of Singapore Chief Sustainability Officer ...

Missouri pulls BlackRock mandate in anti-ESG move

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2022  |  NEWS
... from BlackRock in the latest manifestation of the anti-ESG movement on the rise in some US states. Republican State Treasurer Scott Fitzpatrick announced that the Missouri State Employees' Retirement System (MOSERS) has sold all public equities managed ...

Does Canberra's agenda align with sustainable investment?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... while there are gaps, the Albanese government's policies do align to the SDGs. BCSDA CEO Andrew Petersen pointed to Treasurer Jim Chalmers' announcement in July that the forthcoming budget will include a chapter on wellbeing as an example of this. "There ...

Consultation on faith-based products opens

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2022  |  NEWS
... fulfilment of a promise made by Labor during the campaign. In April during the annual RIAA conference, then- Shadow Assistant Treasurer and Shadow Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation Stephen Jones said that if elected, a Labor government ...