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Workplace conduct a financial risk: Fidelity International

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... "culture-based financial risks" to encapsulate the ways in which culture can pose risks to investors and impact on shareholder value and issued a whitepaper, Workplace Misconduct: The underestimated systemic implications for investors to explore the ...

La Trobe University inks sustainability-linked loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
A major Australian university has locked in a $195 million sustainability-linked loan (SLL) with interest rate savings being reinvested into an Indigenous accommodation scholarship fund and other initiatives. La Trobe University has refinanced existing ...

New tools available to help investors meet Paris Agreement

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 17 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... enhancements to its EU Taxonomy Alignment Solution. ISS STOXX is the result of a recent merger between Institutional Shareholder Services and the Qontigo index business. In June the European Commission approved EU Taxonomy criteria for sustainable use ...

Nature-related risk a potential risk to directors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... themselves and taking action appropriately so as to engage available defences," the opinion says. The opinion comes as a shareholder in ANZ has sued the bank over allegations that it has failed to manage the material risks of climate change and biodiversity ...

AustralianSuper rejects latest Brookfield overture

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... been the subject of an assertive back and forth between the consortium and AustralianSuper, the company's largest shareholder at 15%. Earlier this month, the consortium increased its bid for Origin Energy by $1.2 billion, a move that was rejected ...

ANZ in court over climate and nature risk failure

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
An ANZ shareholder is taking the bank to court over allegations that it has failed to manage the material risks of climate change and biodiversity loss. Catherine Rossiter is a long-term shareholder of the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group. Rossiter ...

Fears grow around greenwashing litigation protections

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... regulator is under-resourced and enforcement measures are not clear. A phased approach would be at the expense of the shareholder, the market and societal interests at large, O'Brien said. ACCR is currently in the midst of a greenwashing lawsuit ...

Brookfield ups the ante on Origin by $1.2bn

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... range identified in the Independent Expert's Report and is endorsed by the Origin Board." Origin's largest shareholder, AustralianSuper, announced it would vote against the revised takeover bid on the grounds that the bid in the scheme booklet ...

Investors press Boral for clarity on net zero ambitions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... Boral is now owned by Seven Holdings, following a takeover in mid 2021. "Since then, Australian Ethical, which is a shareholder in Boral, says it has become increasingly concerned about its new management teams' retreat on its climate transition," Australian ...

ASX50 lags on disclosure of political spending: ACCR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... around political expenditure and whether we need more resolutions and investor focus on that topic. That hasn't been a shareholder focus here in Australia as much as in the USA." ACCR also homed in on disclosures at BHP, Origin, Rio Tinto, Santos and ...