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Australian housing crisis escalates as affordability worsens

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2024  |  NEWS
... projections, and hence, upside risk to estimates of underlying housing demand," they said. "Supply has been unable to keep pace with this rapid demand growth." Exacerbating the constraints on housing supply, bankruptcies in the construction industry ...

Larry Fink letter urges pragmatism

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
The BlackRock CEO's annual letter waxed poetic on the old age question, fear, and the savings strategy of stuffing money under mattresses. He also said the energy transition is not a straight line and requires "pragmatism". This means Larry Fink believes ...

Why top firms have more women on boards: AICD

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... impacts of board diversity and soon follow suit. "The data also shows us that the larger ASX groups are steadily keeping pace on diversity as well." There is room for improvement regarding the percentage of women holding chair positions. There are only ...

ESG skills in hot demand in risk, compliance hiring

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... risk and compliance roles, Kaizen Recruitment identified specialised knowledge including ESG expertise and the increasing pace of regulatory change as two catalysts stretching demand for a "shallow pool of candidates with in-depth experience within the ...

Australia climbs quickly on climate policy development

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... consequences on individuals and organisations." "Many of our members are concerned they will be unable to keep up with the pace of change, as the development of these laws, standards and regulations happen at breakneck speed. The materiality and immunity ...

COP28 key outcomes: what it means for finance

ROSE MARY PETRASS, RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... perfect process, it's the process we have," Reynolds said. "It has slowly helped the world still move forward, not at the pace we need, but let's face it - when you try to bring nearly 200 countries together to get an agreement around anything ...

Slow progress on human rights in business

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 27 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... disclose details about their remediation processes. While some companies are making progress on human rights, the average pace of improvement is "too slow", WBA said. In particular, the researchers highlighted the "failure" of many companies to involve ...

Exiting emissions-intensive assets may not reduce climate risk

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... Network Australia, said the fact that the majority of companies will fail to achieve net zero goals if they don't double the pace of emissions reduction by 2030 should be a "red flag" for investors. However, she said divestment alone will not accelerate ...

Data centre operator refinances multi-billion-dollar sustainability linked loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... Tokyo East. Collectively, AirTrunk's APJ data centre platform offers almost 1.38GW of capacity and is growing at a rapid pace to address customer demand for public cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) platforms, AirTrunk said. AirTrunk has now raised ...

Industy veterans named to sustainable finance taxonomy working group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... Group (TTEG). "It is imperative that we develop a sustainable finance taxonomy that is fit for purpose in Australia at the pace and scale commensurate with the challenge ahead of us," Debelle said. "The establishment of the TTEG and commencement of the ...
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