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What do the best-functioning boards look like?

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
... might expect. "We need to be able to take those risks in the interest of the organisation. That is my concern, that you will bias everything so much more short term," Long said. What is also valuable for boards and the wider organisation are directors ...

Future Super, Verve to overhaul investments

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2025  |  NEWS
... leadership; and paid parental leave. However, the approach is slightly updated; the portfolio also now creates a positive bias towards companies that hold a current Workplace Gender Equality Agency Employer of Choice Citation. A Verve member with $50,000 ...

Impact investing needs instos to scale: Experts

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... panel. One of the reasons, Halpern said, is when impact investors speak to institutional investors they tend to come with a bias, such as an "impact-first bias" as opposed to being "financial first." Therein lies the tension - can those in the impact ...

New fund backs marginalised female entrepreneurs

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... Papua New Guinea. Good Return head of Asia and impact investments Diana Tjoeng said the new fund will address the gender bias in the financial sector and its engagement with small businesses. "Small businesses in the Asia Pacific form the backbone of ...

What to expect in 2025

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... infrastructure over the next few years, meaning investors will need to pay close attention to potential misuse, errors and bias, intellectual property theft, environmental impact and safety risks. However, the technology may be a boon for investors when ...

Aus funds hit by outflows, global gains for passive ESG

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
Latest fund data show ESG funds were hit hard by outflows in the June quarter, but some strategies and fund managers are thriving. Australia and New Zealand sustainable funds suffered $1.2 billion in outflows (US$800 million) in the three months to ...

NAB funds DEI workplace research

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... workers. The first study in 2020, outlined the improvements required to create workplaces free of racism, discrimination and bias. Nareen Young, professor of Indigenous policy at Jumbunna and dean of the UTS Business School, said the 2020 report needed ...

ESG demand still high for advisers

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... inwards": socially responsible investments have become a "nice to have". "You as an adviser has enormous power with your own bias... if one person has a conviction in something they believe in, the answer will correspond with that belief." Recent data ...

ESG fund performance leans on growth

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... social challenges faced through both investment and engagement." The strategy "does not expose investors to excessive style bias (notably growth). This has resulted in highly differentiated performance over the past three years," Rowe told FS Sustainability. ...

Disability inclusion is a financial issue

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
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). There are 4.4 million ...
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