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Social license to operate, stakeholder management key governance concerns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... piece is sponsored by T. Rowe Price Companies' social license to operate and wider stakeholder concerns are core governance considerations during this AGM season in Australia. The recent history of corporate scandals relating to poor conduct - Rio ...

Integrating ESG to manage risks of high yield credit

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
Editorial note: This piece is sponsored by T. Rowe Price Integrating environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) information into high yield strategies can augment risk analysis, although there are challenges in finding information about private ...

Integrating impact investing in listed equity portfolios

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... impact strategy to a listed equities portfolio? A: If you look back at the past 50 years, shareholder expectations for governance was around maximising shareholder value, but now, expectations on companies are much broader. Environmental sustainability ...

Fund supports deidentified recruitment

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
Future Super, the $1 billion ethical retail fund, has shared how its deidentified recruitment has helped boost diversity - after mixed results last year. Future Super head of group strategy Veronica Sherwood-Meares said on LinkedIn that Future Super ...

SGX hires head of sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... drive the strategic direction of the exchange's ESG ambitions, building on SGX's ESG environmental, social and governance (ESG) capabilities, expertise and assets. This includes delivering on SGX's commitment to improve the ecosystem "through ...

SSGA to use proxy vote over ethnic, racial diversity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... steps the US$3 trillion investment manager will take. In 2021, SSGA will vote against the chair of the nominating and governance committee at companies in the S&P 500 and FTSE 100 that do not disclose the racial and ethnic composition of their boards. ...

Tech platform to assist ASX companies in ESG reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... Small and medium sized ASX listed companies can measure, monitor and report their material environmental, social and governance (ESG) exposures through a new technology platform linked to the World Economic Forum (WEF)'s ESG Global Standard Metrics. ...

Climate, governance and supply chain top 2021 priorities: BofA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
Climate change and renewables, governance, and supply chains are the top 2021 priorities for institutional investors, according to a recent survey from Bank of America. "We expected climate to be important because everything is moving in that direction ...

Science-based targets key to addressing the world's biggest challenges

LOUISE WATSON  |  TUESDAY, 29 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... unforeseen pandemic and real economic pain. There is a growing realisation that the impact of environmental, social and even governance risks can and will have negative financial consequences. The results of the US presidential election will have flow-on ...

Successful ESG integration: moving from why to how

GUILLAUME MASCOTTO  |  TUESDAY, 29 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
Recent regulatory developments suggest that environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing is neither a fad nor a subjective enterprise. Rather, it has become a critical part of day-to-day investment management. Global investor commitment to ESG ...