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Australia's budget position ranks second among G20 nations

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2024
... Fund (IMF). Australia's budget balance was -0.9% of GDP in 2023, surpassing advanced economies like Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Treasurer Jim Chalmers and minister for finance Katy Gallagher said the "remarkable improvement" ...

Income inequality elevated, spikes: Oxfam

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2024
... distribution inequality, among these countries register above 0.4, which Oxfam said hits the warning level set by the United Nations. On a scale from zero to one, a Gini coefficient of one denotes total inequality. Australia's Gini coefficient in 2019-20 ...

Super funds defend controversial weapons holdings

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2024
... Two years on, Russia's continuous attacks have killed 9614 Ukrainians as at September 2023, according to the United Nations, while its destruction of civilian infrastructure resulted in over 6.5 million refugees. ART, AustralianSuper, Hostplus, and ...

JANA wins another NFP mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 JAN 2024
... It also aligns its portfolio, which comprises lending, treasury assets, equities, property, and infrastructure, to the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The synod supports more than 500 congregations, 50,000 members, 13 Presbyteries ...

Returns from agriculture a perfect storm of demographics, demand

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 1 SEP 2023
... Management managing director Jim McKay pointed out that the global population hit eight billion last year, and United Nations estimates an additional 500 million people by 2030. This demographic wave, notably with India recently becoming the world's ...

Super funds taking on the climate crisis

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 AUG 2023
... is setting its sights on achieving a net-zero carbon footprint by 2050, as is consistent with the goals of the United Nations Paris Agreement. To advance its goal, the fund launched a sustainable growth product in 2021 and divested from thermal coal ...

Modern slavery on the rise a decade on from Rana Plaza

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2023
... what is a pretty nascent/emerging market for embracing human rights risk, full stop." During the same decade, the United Nations promulgated the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, which are a series of fundamental principles on business ...

First Super awards ESG mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2023
... bespoke strategy is designed to reflect the labour rights areas most important to First Super, aligned with the United Nations Global Compact Labour Principles. "We're focusing on labour rights in particular the back of a number of controversies ...

Alphinity debuts two funds on the ASX

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2023
... leading global sustainable listed companies that Alphinity deems as having a "net positive alignment" to the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It also exceeds Alphinity's minimum ESG criteria and offer "attractive prospective ...

HESTA adds US$200m to Stafford Capital private equity fund

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 9 JAN 2023
... Trust (HSCIT) makes direct investments in lower-mid-market private equity businesses that contribute to one or more United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, including good health and wellbeing, gender equality, affordable and clear energy, climate ...
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