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Auditors lambast mandatory climate reporting requirements

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2024
Almost 90% of surveyed auditors do not support the government's requirements to implement mandatory climate reporting and assurance on private companies, not-for-profits and companies limited by guarantee, according to a new survey. The survey was conducted ...

Treasury releases climate disclosure draft legislation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 16 JAN 2024
Super funds with more than $5 billion in assets under management will have to report on the financial impacts of climate change from 1 July 2026, according to mandatory climate risk reporting legislation proposed by government. Treasury released the ...

Fears grow around greenwashing litigation protections

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2023
Treasury's proposed three-year moratorium on private litigation related to Scope 3 reporting as part of its proposed mandatory climate-related financial disclosure package has raised fears that it would give companies the green light to greenwash. ...

Acadian employs ChatGPT to assess climate targets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 AUG 2023
... explained Acadian senior vice president, ESG portfolio manager Matthew Picone. "It takes 80 minutes to read a sustainability report on average," Picone said. "That was the motivation around using a large language model to assess these reports. It reduces ...

Sustainability reporting, biodiversity, social high on ASX agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2023
"Future facing commodities" and the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) accounting standards are the fastest rising topics of discussion in sustainability, while social issues are quickly rising to the fore with ASX-listed companies ...

Sri Lanka announces bankruptcy

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2022
... process," he said. Wickremesinghe added that Sri Lanka's financial legal advisors are working on a debt sustainability report to be submitted in August.

Australian Ethical overhauls longstanding fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2021
... maximum bet limits on poker machines operated by the retail giant. As reported by FS Sustainability (then The Sustainability Report ) at the time, the resolution was overwhelmingly rejected by shareholders, but it marked the first time the fund had focused ...

Investors demand credible climate information

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2021
Retail investors would have greater confidence in sustainability information it was subject to independent assurance, new research shows. The Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA ANZ) Investor Confidence Survey recorded 87% of investors ...

Active Super awards back-office mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 AUG 2021
Active Super has awarded a back-office mandate to Investment Control Systems (ICS) in a bid to increase efficiencies. ICS will help Active Super manage and automate several functions such as exposure reporting, cash forecasting, rebalancing, performance ...

Sydney digital adviser wins UK client

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAY 2021
... advisers but will be underpinned by technology that automates processes like fact find, online submission and sustainability report creations. "The service will initially be targeted at the company's existing customers before being offered more widely ...
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