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BlackRock details engagement activity in stewardship report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... of corporate strategy, capital allocation, you can spend a lot of time with companies talking about purpose, their own social license, how they're thinking about their own future, again trying to emphasise the long term operational sustainability for ...

Three lessons when assessing ESG risks

JOSHUA KENDALL  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... holders of this bond had lost c.80% of their investment value. It is another in a long line of examples of how environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks can have a material impact on the creditworthiness of a company. No risk assessment can be ...

Head of sustainability salaries revealed

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... performance. They're looking at renewables and bringing that into the mix. "You might have an organisation with a strong social focus on sustainability, so it's a different skill set again." Larger companies that put the head of sustainability ...

Northern Trust outlines social, environmental challenges to road ahead

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
Reimaging capitalism and reengaging with climate risk are two of the broad themes that will affect financial markets over the next five years, according to Northern Trust. Northern Trust has updated their capital market assumptions, forecasting global ...

Positive ESG impact linked to financial performance: Melior

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... of investment portfolio and it's doing well as well as doing good." Companies are also increasingly recognising that social and environmental considerations have to be part of companies' decision making, said Lucy Steed, Melior chief executive. ...

ESG scores linked to higher stock valuation: Bank of America

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
Stocks with higher environmental, social and governance (ESG) scores have outperformed companies with lower ESG scores, according to Bank of America. Good ESG companies typically have better return on equity, lower earnings volatility and lower share ...

Wesfarmers director to retire

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... Commonwealth Bank and Wesfarmers signed a $400 million three-year bilateral sustainability-linked loan which will link social and environmental outcomes to the cost of finance. The social metrics aim to increase Indigenous employment levels across the ...

Chronos Sustainability appoints Arisa Kishigami

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... advisor on sustainable investment for Asia Pacific, where she developed and advised on a range of high profile environmental social and governance (ESG) investment indices and ratings and client engagement programmes on stewardship and ESG integration. ...

IIG launches alternative fund-of funds impact strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... (IIG) has launched a $70 million fund of funds impact investment fund aimed at providing income yield, return and positive social and environmental impacts. The Impact Alternatives Fund will include a mix of investments covering renewable energy infrastructure ...

Global sustainability standards bodies launch shared vision, goals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... disclosure standards are designed to facilitate. "SASB's unique role in this system is to surface the subset of environmental, social, and governance issues reasonably likely to materially impact financial performance of the typical company in each of ...