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RIAA launches armed conflict toolkit for investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... sanctions in an armed conflict situation, it adds complexities and if a company provides and essential service such as food or health supplies, businesses risk exacerbating the problem if they exit suddenly. "If you leave a country, your assets might ...

Assessing the risks of psychosocial safety

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... the highest risk for psychosocial safety. At the RIAA Conference in Melbourne last week, Rod Gutierrez, vice president of health and hygiene at BHP, defined psychosocial safety as applying a risk lens to psychosocial hazards: "an extension of physical ...

Australian wellbeing hits record low

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... personal wellbeing index (PWI) measures satisfaction across seven aspects of personal life, including standard of living, health, achieving in life, personal relationships, safety, community connectedness, and future security. Low satisfaction with community ...

Investing in First Nations People

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... Overcoming barriers to Indigenous investment alongside improving First Nations self-determination is crucial to closing the health and wealth gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. It will also prove essential to solving the climate crisis ...

CEFC invests $80m in Pacific Equity Partners fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) has allocated up to $80 million into a private equity strategy that will focus on decarbonisation across Australian mid-market infrastructure. The CEFC has invested in the $1.4 billion Pacific Equity Partners ...

Stewardship and greenwashing in spotlight at RI Australia 2023

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
Greenwashing, investment stewardship and the maturation of the responsible investment sector will be key themes in the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) RI Australia 2023 conference. RI Australia 2023 will be in Melbourne May 10-11. ...

First Sentier Investors to focus on armed conflict

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
First Sentier Investors has augmented its approach to human rights risks and exposures to include armed conflict. First Sentier has had a general human rights toolkit since 2016 and in 2020 added a framework for identifying Modern Slavery Risks. The ...

American Century Investments on impact investing and best in progress

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2023  |  NEWS
Head of ESG and sustainable investing at American Century Investments, Sarah Bratton Hughes, says the market is moving away from best in class, and towards best in progress, at a time when emissions are at an all-time high. The US-based ESG leader says ...

Super funds ESG options underweight BHP, overweight CSL: Rainmaker Information

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... financials sectors. Offsetting this, ESG investment options on average have higher exposure to the communications services, health care and information technology sectors." In international equities holdings, "ESG products were found to on average have ...

Casting a wide net: ending modern slavery in fisheries

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... focus on sectors where forced labour has been a concern, including consumer discretionary, consumer staples, technology and health care companies, predominantly in the Asia Pacific region. The priorities for this theme revolve around robust governance ...