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Businesses back stronger Modern Slavery Act

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... what's the impact beyond that? Who are the suppliers in those, the worker representatives, the unions, etc." Meanwhile, ESG SaaS platform FairSupply has released a report assessing the likely changes to the MSA and how that will impact company reporting ...

ESG goes mainstream: How the role has changed and what lies ahead

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 4 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... teams to understand the financial meaning of environmental, and social impact. Central to this quest is ensuring that ESG data is accurate and quantifiable, and translatable into monetary terms so that business leaders, stakeholders, and investors can ...

CEFC doubles investment in Artesian bond fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... Sustainability that they use a three-stage process to evaluate bond issuance, evaluating a company and its performance on material ESG issues, evaluating its overall credit-worthiness, and finally assessing the bond itself for its impact. "Green bonds ...

Global investors set net zero target, implementation lags

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... assessing Scope 3 emissions." Against those net zero commitments, nearly half of investors (47%) have reviewed some of their ESG approaches to avoid short-term underperformance, including unwillingness to miss out on strong returns in the oil and gas ...

Juicing up gender equity with Orange Bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... Nuveen, ANZ and others. The sustainable bond sector is growing quickly - according to data from Bloomberg, total cumulative ESG issuance passed the $3 trillion mark as of 30 September 2022. IIX cited analysis from Moody's Investor Services suggesting ...

Fink counts the cost of "easy money" in annual letter

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... global economies count the price of more than a decade of easy money in his annual letter to investors. In a letter where ESG and climate change took a backseat to concerns over inflation, fears of another incipient global banking crisis and continued ...

Former MAS chief sustainability officer launches advisory firm

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... act reporting is quite manual, there's a great opportunity to get technology involved." To that end, McBain is working with ESG tech partners. She pointed to Singapore based tech firm STACS, which operates the MAS's Greenprint ESG Registry, which uses ...

First Super taps IFM Investors for ESG mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... has appointed IFM Investors to manage a new indexed international equities strategy that prioritises strong performance on ESG with a focus on governance and labour rights. The new strategy is designed to provide exposure to a diversified portfolio of ...

Exploding the glass cliff myth

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... diversity in company management can indicate potential investment opportunity. The quantitative manager integrates data from ESG analysis into its investment process. "This builds on the work we had done last year to further investigate why when companies ...

More greenwashing investigations ahead: ASIC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... with what's actually happening in the back end," Steffanoni said. "Disclosure reviews can't happen in isolation. Review of ESG-related disclosures should involve marketing, compliance and legal, investment and operations because all parts of the financial ...