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Australian Ethical tops $5 billion in assets under management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
Australian Ethical Investment has surpassed $5 billion in funds under management, a growth figure that sets the company up to push further into existing markets and develop its relationships in the advisory space. Australian Ethical's funds under ...

SSGA to use proxy vote over ethnic, racial diversity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... lives, companies, communities, and our economy - and is material to long-term sustainable returns." SSGA contacted global company directors in August of 2020 to advise companies that their diversity engagements had expanded to include discussions of ...

Tech platform to assist ASX companies in ESG reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... their impact on people, such as measuring the value of social investment programs to enhance accountability reporting. The company is making a foray into the listed ASX world by developing a solution that allows companies to measure and report their ...

Water, water risk everywhere: DWS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... listed markets. But we have to be quite careful about what is the impact, because if I buy an equity in a renewable energy company, or in a very highly rated sustainability company, am I changing, for example, carbon emissions in the real world?"

Climate, governance and supply chain top 2021 priorities: BofA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... "Investors are saying, send me a list of the companies that have added the most independents, the most females on board. A company that's already three fourths independent doesn't move the needle but one that's only 30% independent or has only one female ...

Successful ESG integration: moving from why to how

GUILLAUME MASCOTTO  |  TUESDAY, 29 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... other beta-type filters. Much of that data hasn't been audited or contextualised around financial materiality and company fundamentals. A growing body of research supports a positive relationship between high ESG characteristics and investment outcomes. ...

Future Super to reduce fees on fund options

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 29 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... compliance committee and director and chair of the audit and risk committee for Perpetual Super and Perpetual Equity Investment Company. Future Super has also bolstered its investment committee, appointing both Karen McLeod and Geraldine Barlow-Bolt. ...

The articles you read in 2020

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 29 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
This year tested every principle of sustainability, from the bushfires that began the year to the COVID-19 pandemic. Far from shoving ESG down the agenda, the impacts of both crises proved a force multiplier for the impact of environmental, social and ...

Report calls out AIA's coal-based assets, policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 22 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... regarding its portfolio holdings in coal and coal-fired electricity assets, with a US-based think tank estimating the company could hold as much as US$6 billion in coal-related assets. The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) ...

CSC partners with Osmosis IM on sustainable strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 22 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... more nuanced view, Osmosis also look at waste generation and water consumption in their analysis. "We make a case that a company who effectively manages their environmental balance sheet, is a proxy for quality that's yet to be identified and is ...