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Preqin offers ESG benchmark for alternatives

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2024  |  NEWS
... funds to enable more opportunities for capital to flow to sustainable investments," Preqin's head of ESG solutions and corporate responsibility Jaclyn Bouchard said. head of benchmarks Fabien Chen added: "With this latest launch, we hope to give practitioners ...

Deutsche Bank links 33% of long-term bonuses to non-financial targets

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... targets, including governance and operations; technology, data and innovation; and employees and corporate social responsibility. Deutsche Bank aims to provide €500 billion of sustainable financing and investment volumes between 2020 and 2025. €279 ...

AI poses serious governance risk

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) conference yesterday about the unchecked environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) risk arising from the use of AI systems. Davis is a director at UTS' Human Technology Institute (HTI) ...

ESG indices linked to Myanmar junta

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... executive Kristy Graham told FS Sustainability. The social considerations are likely to include "key aspects of good corporate governance including anti-corruption, international human rights, and considerations around First Nations rights and cultural ...

Call for investment to spur ethical fashion education

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... better support consumers in their spending. Financial institutions should invest in upskilling awareness to encourage corporate responsibility and ethical practices (such as eradicating forced labour and ensuring fair wages) in companies they invest ...

Corporates to begin adopting final TNFD recommendations

ROSE MARY PETRASS, RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... longer an option and business and finance can no longer consider nature and biodiversity as just a corporate social responsibility (CSR) issue. It is now squarely a central and strategic risk management issue." Business Council for Sustainable Development ...

Australian self-directed investors lead world on ESG

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 29 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... decisions in where I invest my money, rather than just purely for profit". Secondly, investors cited corporate social responsibility: "Sustainability and doing the right thing by the environment is everyone's responsibility", an investor commented. ...

Building sustainable supply chains

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... and ways to navigate a dynamically complex reporting and regulatory landscape. Brambles director of sustainability, corporate and Asia-Pacific Lachlan Feggans noted that it is incumbent upon them to manage risk because, as a global logistics company ...

How investors manage risk in a new AI world

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 17 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... risks. Research from the University of Technology Sydney's Human Technology Institute finds an absence of AI-focused corporate governance strategies, hindering prudent decision-making and accountability. In fact, only 10% of corporate leaders reported ...

Social license or social-washing - weighing the value of public statements on the Voice

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 10 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... weigh in on their position on the Voice, balancing criticism of potential social-washing and virtue signalling versus corporate responsibility and social license to operate in the communities in which they operate as well as their role in facilitating ...
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