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Pension funds unite for ESG

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2020
... reporting of environmental, social and governance (ESG) information, aligned with the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board standards and the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures framework. Greater transparency would enable more informed ...

SASB appoints Australian advisor

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2020
... advisor for Australia following increased interest from local institutional investors. The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) has appointed Terence Jeyaretnam to the role, on a volunteer basis, to work with the increasing number of companies ...

New requirements for SMSFs

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2020
... come into effect 1 July 2021. New accounting standard AASB 2020-2 has been released by the Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB) and will come into effect from 1 July 2021. The ATO said it will change the reporting requirements of certain for-profit ...

State Street rejigs international equities fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2020
... scoring system, R-Factor(TM). R-Factor draws on multiple data sources and leverages the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board's (SASB) widely accepted, transparent Materiality Map to generate a unique ESG score for listed companies, according to ...

Count Financial bolsters leadership team

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2020
... Australia's code of ethics and professional standards, now used globally through the Global Financial Planning Standards Board. Commenting on the appointment, Rowe said Creswell will bring a wealth of experience to the Count Financial team. "Phil has ...

HESTA names chief risk officer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2020
... Investment Council and also represents HESTA on several boards. He has also served as a director of the Climate Bonds Standards Board and as co-chair of the UN PRI Infrastructure Advisory Committee. HESTA chief executive Debby Blakey said the fund was ...

Platform appoints TPB director

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2019
... subsidiary. She also brings experience as an Australian representative on the International Financial Planning Standards Board and the Global Standards Body for financial advisers to the role. "Berry's experience demonstrates leadership, change management ...

Bloomberg launches equity benchmarks

KRISTI CHENG  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2019
... responsibilities". "The Bloomberg SASB ESG index family is an innovative example of bringing SASB [Sustainability Accounting Standards Board]'s vision of materiality-based ESG investing to life," said director of capital markets policy and outreach at ...

Industry fund appoints former Labor politician

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2018
... from two roles to focus on HESTA's chair position - as the chair of the Accounting Professional and Ethical Standards Board and as an adjunct professor within the College of Law and Justice at Victoria University. HESTA chief executive Debby Blakey ...

Global banking ethics standard coming to Australia

HARRISON WORLEY  |  SATURDAY, 26 MAY 2018
... Education and Training for Professional Bankers Standard is the first to be released by the Global Banking Education Standards Board (GBEStB), and will be supported by the Financial Services Institute of Australia (FINSIA). As a GBEStB member body, FINSIA ...