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KPMG outlines focus on gender diversity in ASX201-300 company boards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... zero women on boards in both of those sectors. KPMG recently released a report interviewing 11 non-executive directors and chairs on ASX200 companies to assemble recommendations for ASX201-300 companies as they seek to increase diversity on boards. "There ...

Australian Sustainable Finance Initiative sets working groups

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2019  |  NEWS
... and services to better account for risk and impact. Alexis Cheang, partner, head of ANZ, responsible investment, Mercer, chairs this working group. - Technical Working Group 3: Making better informed financial decisions by enhancing disclosures and transparency. ...

Climate change, modern slavery on ESG engagement agenda: Ausbil

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
... sustainability. In 2018, Ausbil reported actively engaging in 22 ESG areas across 17 different GICS industry sectors, with chairs, chief executives, and other corporate leadership, spread across large caps to mid and small caps. Over 60% of ESG engagement ...

ACSI updates gender diversity policy to apply to ASX200 companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
... diversity can be reached without quotas and intervention as long as there are passionate advocates for diversity across ASX chairs and directors." Currently, the number of female company directors for the ASX201-300 stood at 19.7%, with 28 companies ...

Impact Investing Australia to administer $7m Australian government fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
... focused push, so we can actually go out and find other opportunities." Impact Investment Group CEO, Daniel Madhavan who also chairs the Growth Grant selection panel also welcomed the new. "We have already seen the successful allocation of $1.75 million ...

A4S to address sustainability, disclosure at World Congress of Accountants

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... around sustainability issues, particularly the mainstream fund managers." A4S also has a network of pension fund trustee chairs to share knowledge around climate change risk and mitigation and sustainability issues more generally. "That appreciation ...

Majority of ASX200 boards gravitate to known candidates for board positions: 30% Club

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... demand, with insufficient numbers of boards perceiving gender diversity as a strategic imperative," Oliver said. "When chairs place too high a value on "collegiality and teamwork", it can be used as a code for "being like us" and limit the opportunity ...

Seven ASX 200 boards with no women, 64 with only one: AICD

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2017  |  NEWS
... target. That's the basis of our call to action. It's quite strong action - a wake up call for the boards, for directors, for chairs, for investors, we need to see a bit of a turn of the dial to get that trajectory/momentum back." Petschler noted that ...

30% Club Australia calls for renewed push to get women on boards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 SEP 2017  |  NEWS
... conscious bias in terms of how we put our boards together and that becomes very clear from some of the 30% Club research when chairs and board directors talk about fit and style. There is a real aversion to putting people on boards they perceive will ...

RIAA launches Impact Investment Forum to build scale in sector

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2017  |  NEWS
... will be led by impact investing leaders, with Peter Murphy, former CEO of Christian Super as chair, along with co-Deputy Chairs Kylie Charlton of Australian Impact Investments and Unitus Capital, and Amanda Goodman of the Impact Investment Group. The ...