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Responsible investments top $1.54 trillion in Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2022  |  NEWS
... beneficiaries and their members." The study also found that products certified under RIAA's Responsible Investment Certification Program on average outperformed the market in the medium to long term, and over some time frames achieved two or three times ...

ACCU demand to rise with Climate Active certification: CBA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
Australian businesses pursuing voluntary government certification for climate targets are expected to further drive the use of Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs), according to Commonwealth Bank. As Australian businesses adopt net zero carbon targets ...

La Trobe Financial certified by Climate Action

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
La Trobe Financial has received Climate Active certification for its Australian business operations. Climate Active is an Australian government-backed program that provides certification for businesses that have achieved net zero emissions, or carbon ...

Uncovering value in ESG improvers: Pengana

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... leadership management training programs and whether they had adequately resourced support for employee education, certification," he said. "Employee satisfaction surveys were not up to par for an organisation like that." Pengana also raised concerns ...

Fixing Australia's complicated carbon market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... criteria that should be applied to international offsets under the government's Climate Active carbon neutral certification program, the Indo-Pacific Carbon Offsets Scheme, and for other uses, the CCA said. Herd pointed to four key considerations ...

Schroders' sustainable multi-asset fund receives RIAA certification

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2022  |  NEWS
Schroders has received certification from the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) for its newly renamed Sustainable Growth fund. The Schroder Sustainable Growth Fund is Schroders' first sustainable multi-asset strategy available in ...

CBA expands ESG term deposit to foreign currencies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2022  |  NEWS
... certified by the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA), under the auspices of its responsible investment certification program. "We had a pool of sustainability-linked loans from the institutional banking side that was seeing a lot of ...

Fox and Hare certified as B Corp

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
... that we're heading in the right direction and have guidance," Hare said. "That's something I took out of the B Corp certification that I didn't foresee - they made us really open our minds to areas that we just hadn't considered. "... It enabled us to ...

Heritage Bank hires first ESG and sustainability manager

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
... delivery of improved governance and reporting of Heritage's ESG performance and projects such as carbon neutral certification. Masci has more than 15 years' experience across environmental management, corporate sustainability and ESG and comes to Heritage ...

US SEC proposes new disclosure for ESG funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2022  |  NEWS
... allocate their capital efficiently and meet their needs." Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) head of certification and ratings Cassandra Williams said that RIAA welcomes the proposal by the US and notes that many of the proposed stipulations ...