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RIAA launches Sustainability Classifications Initiative

ROSE MARY PETRASS
A crucial new initiative offers investors a greater level of transparency and clarity, empowering them to meet their responsible investing goals while avoiding greenwashing.

Geostrategic risks in a changing world

ROSE MARY PETRASS
Increasing geopolitical uncertainty means that investors must navigate new risks affecting supply chains, food security and human rights.

AI toolkit to protect human rights

ROSE MARY PETRASS
A lack of AI regulation poses a serious threat to human rights, as digital privacy is invaded, intellectual property is stolen, algorithms are trained by human bias, and discrimination and deepfake pornography proliferates the internet.

Active ownership is the new sheriff in town

MICHELLE BALTAZAR
Prepare to be dazzled - or bulldozed, as the case may be - as sustainable investing goes through a whirlwind transformation, says the chief executive of the nation's third-largest super fund.

Plibersek threatens circularity laws

ROSE MARY PETRASS   Canberra warns if businesses don't step up it will revise legislation surrounding product stewardship and the circular economy to boost investor confidence.

On biodiversity, a 143-year-old museum comes to the rescue

MICHELLE BALTAZAR   In the quest for irrefutable biodiversity data, a trillion-dollar fund manager found an unlikely partner in a 143-year-old museum best known for 'Dippy', the dinosaur.

Member accuses UniSuper of greenwashing

JAMIE WILLIAMSON   UniSuper was recently hit with fresh allegations of greenwashing by a member who issued a complaint to ASIC in relation to certain holdings.

AXA IM releases engagement data

ROSE MARY PETRASS   Climate and corporate governance were the biggest areas of focus for the leading global asset manager, which ramped up its engagement activities by 14% on the previous year.

Companies warned to disclose nature risks

ROSE MARY PETRASS   Organisations must assess their nature-related dependencies, impacts, risks, and opportunities and disclose their findings to all stakeholders.

Disability inclusion is a financial issue

ROSE MARY PETRASS   Following the ramping up of focus on gender, racial and ethnic, and LGBTQI+ inclusion in organisations, disability inclusion has emerged as the missing puzzle piece in the campaign for better diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).

Impact investing drops down the list

ROSE MARY PETRASS   New global findings from a US$240 billion asset manager finds that persistent inflation and market volatility has investors' minds focused on returns rather than impact.

Members beef up ESG checks

ROSE MARY PETRASS   A new report reveals that investors are keener than ever to secure their financial future by investing responsibly and will pull their money if their manager doesn't do so.

Doing better on First Nations heritage

ROSE MARY PETRASS   The destruction of Juukan Gorge in 2020 in the Western Pilbara was a flash point in awareness of First Nations heritage and engagement issues in Australia.

Podcast: Advancing First Nations outcomes with Phil Usher

ROSE MARY PETRASS   When it comes to advancing outcomes for First Nations Peoples, economic empowerment, accessibility, and financial literacy are at the fore.

RIAA: Fund flows, greenwashing, AI and disability inclusion

ROSE MARY PETRASS   In the midst of massive change for the industry, both companies and financiers are grappling with what to do next.

Timber talks: Cultivating natural capital with Sarah Clawson

ROSE MARY PETRASS   This episode of The Greener Way, we hear from Sarah Clawson, Global Head of Investor Relations at New Forests - an international investment manager of nature-based real assets and natural capital strategies.

ESG professionals' salary guide revealed

ELIZA BAVIN   Increasing demand for a better work-life balance has seen many ESG professionals looking to make a job switch, the newest Kaizen Recruitment salary guide found.

MLC Life sustainability manager joins impact firm

ROSE MARY PETRASS   Sustainability and impact investment expert Désirée Lucchese has joined the board of a newly formed impact research and consulting firm as a non-executive director.