The year 2023 has proven to be a tumultuous period for corporate Australia, marked by a series of corporate scandals and significant shareholder dissent at AGMs. Notably, a record number of ASX300 companies recorded strikes against their remuneration reports, marking the highest tally since the...
MELBOURNE: With increasing attention on greenwashing in finance, the largest and most comprehensive responsible investment conference in the Southern Hemisphere, RI Australia 2023, will take place in Melbourne and online on 10-11 May 2023. Held by the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA), the two-day conference...
2023 is going to be an exciting year for emerging technologies. In the latest edition of Sustainalytics’ 10 for report series, we developed an approach to support investors interested in sustainability issues associated with nascent technologies, including autonomous shipping, air taxis, electric vehicles (EVs), gene...
By Victoria MacLean, associate fund manager and Claire Jervis, senior analyst for the Pengana WHEB Sustainable Impact fund. Excluding defence companies has long been common practice for responsible investors. At a minimum, most negatively screened ‘ethical’ funds exclude the controversial weapons banned under international law: for...
Today, 50,000 companies are annually subjected to ESG evaluations by 150 ratings systems on approximately 10,000 metrics according to MIT Sloan Management Review (see here). This certainly rings true for the Australian market, where over 190 pieces of ESG broking research by 10 broking firms were...
Crystal-balling ESG Trends in 2016 During our recent member-only webinar, speakers from CAER, MSCI ESG Research and Sustainalytics provided no fewer than 15 ESG trends expected on the radar in 2016. What came through strongly was that ESG issues are ever increasingly dynamic and that to...