Members only events

Hear from leading ESG experts from ISS ESG, MSCI, Sustainalytics and FTSE Russell on the big ESG themes for the coming year.

10 October 2019: Ethical Investment Week: The Second Wave of Sustainability This ‘first wave’ of the ‘Sustainability Revolution’ has demonstrated how government policy and economics can drive dramatic changes in relatively short periods of time and rapidly reshape global industries. In this webinar we will briefly discuss the ‘second wave’ of the Sustainability Revolution that will inevitably flow from increasingly serious and ambitious attempts to address global sustainability issues including climate change and beyond. Legislators and regulators around the world are already framing the scope of these changes which will be far broader and more disruptive.

5 September 2019: ASFI: EU Sustainable Finance Taxonomy Briefing On 5 September, the Australian Sustainable Finance Initiative hosted a webinar discussion with Nathan Fabian, Chief Responsible Investment Officer at the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment, who provided an update on the EU taxonomy for sustainable activities.

Blended finance is an innovative approach for structuring an investment to mobilise greater amounts of capital towards impact. It is a strategy that combines capital with different levels of risk in order to ‘catalyse’ risk adjusted, market-rate-seeking capital into impact investments.

In November 2018 RIAA commenced an extensive review of our RI Certification Program. The following provides an overview of the new criteria and the most immediate timeline of events that will affect your certified products.

RIAA invited members to attend an important member forum in Auckland on 15 May to discuss the responsible investment community’s response to the Christchurch terrorist attack.

This RIAA Member only webinar is a follow up from the Animal Welfare for Investors webinar we held in June 2018. This year’s Benchmark has grown to cover 150 global food companies, including 20 from Asia-Pacific covering the major players in processing, restaurants and bars, along with retail.

The research is the result of over 470 interviews with workers in Australian fashion supply chains across Bangladesh and Vietnam, as well as over 130 interviews with factory owners, managers, union leaders and other key stakeholders and focus groups.

Hear from leading ESG experts from CAER, MSCI, Sustainalytics and FTSE Russell on the big ESG themes for the coming year.

For most of the last two decades, the answer was assumed rather than argued: defence sat on the exclusion list beside tobacco and thermal coal, and few asked why. That assumption is now being tested, not because ethics have changed, but because the context has.