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Corporate Strategy
Corporate strategy involves the comprehensive plan a company employs to achieve its long-term objectives, encompassing decisions on resource allocation, market participation, and competitive positioning. Integrating sustainability into corporate strategy enables organisations to create long-term stakeholder value. This approach offers advantages such as enhancing brand value, meeting consumer demands, increasing efficiency, attracting top talent, and opening new market opportunities.
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Sustainable investing: Evidence from the field
This report surveys 509 equity portfolio managers on how they integrate environmental and social (ES) factors into investment decisions. Over 75% of respondents, including traditional investors, use ES factors, driven primarily by financial motivations. Constraints such as fund mandates influence these decisions, but most managers avoid sacrificing financial returns for ES performance.
Integrated profit and loss reporting
This brief presents a framework for integrated profit and loss (IP&L) reporting that includes financial, natural, human, and social capital. It aims to quantify corporate impacts beyond financial capital, providing a comprehensive view of business performance. The IP&L approach helps businesses align sustainability with corporate accountability, benefiting stakeholders.
Fast-track CSRD compliance: Best practices on how to manage CSRD implementation
The report offers guidance for companies navigating the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). It emphasises the importance of double materiality, strategic planning, and organisational readiness. Key practices include gap analysis, leveraging existing infrastructures, and ensuring compliance to minimise risks and create value through effective sustainability reporting.
Diversity matters even more: The case for holistic impact
This report demonstrates that diverse leadership teams are linked to stronger financial performance, higher social and environmental impact, and more satisfied workforces. Covering data from 1,265 companies across 23 countries, the report highlights that companies with greater gender and ethnic diversity are more likely to outperform peers and contribute to sustainable, inclusive growth.
Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI)
Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI) is a global network of central banks and financial regulators promoting financial inclusion policies in developing countries. AFI supports its members in implementing inclusive policies to increase access to financial services, reduce poverty, and promote economic growth. Learn more about their work and initiatives.
Handbook of artificial intelligence and big data applications in investments
This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of artificial intelligence (AI) and big data applications in investments. It covers topics such as machine learning, natural language processing, trading algorithms, and AI-driven customer service. Aimed at finance professionals, it offers insights into practical use cases, challenges, and evolving trends in AI adoption, making it a valuable resource for those navigating the integration of these technologies in investment strategies.
FINSIA
FINSIA (Financial Services Institute of Australasia) promotes professional standards and development in the financial services sector. It offers resources, training, and networking opportunities for finance professionals. FINSIA advocates for ethical practices and supports members in navigating the evolving landscape of financial services, ensuring they remain competitive and informed.
Australian Sustainable Finance Institute (ASFI)
Australian Sustainable Finance Institute (ASFI) works to transform the finance sector by integrating sustainability into financial decision-making. It collaborates with stakeholders to develop frameworks, tools, and resources that enhance the understanding of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors. ASFI aims to facilitate investment aligned with sustainable development goals.
WWF water risk filter
The WWF Water Risk Filter is an online tool that helps businesses and investors assess, understand, and respond to water-related risks globally. It offers comprehensive data, including customised risk assessments and mitigation strategies, enabling informed decision-making to manage water risks effectively.
WWF biodiversity risk filter
The WWF Biodiversity Risk Filter tool helps finance professionals assess biodiversity-related risks to companies and portfolios. It provides data-driven insights to better understand exposure and dependencies on nature, supporting more informed decision-making in risk management and sustainable finance strategies.
Customer Owned Banking Association (COBA)
Customer Owned Banking Association (COBA) represents customer-owned banks, credit unions, and mutual banks in Australia. The organisation advocates for the interests of its members, promoting competition and ethical banking practices. COBA provides resources and insights to enhance customer-focused finance, supporting a sustainable and equitable banking sector for all Australians.
Climate allocation compass, a framework for real-world decarbonization (Compass-FRWD)
This report presents a multi-asset class decarbonisation framework aimed at bridging the global climate investment gap and guiding financial institutions in capital allocation strategies to decarbonise the real economy. The framework includes steps to set emission reduction targets, allocate capital accordingly, and monitor progress using metrics like the Net Zero Deviation Index (NZDI), while emphasising collaboration with policymakers and stakeholders.
Embedding just transition into corporate climate action strategies
This report explores how businesses can integrate the concept of a just transition into their climate action strategies. It outlines key frameworks, corporate responsibilities, and challenges, offering guidance for ensuring social and environmental considerations are embedded in decarbonisation efforts.
Finance for nature positive: Building a working model
The paper seeks feedback from the financial sector on a proposed model for aligning finance with nature-positive outcomes. It provides strategies and definitions aimed at guiding financial institutions in contributing to global biodiversity goals, helping to mitigate negative impacts while supporting nature-positive financial practices. The paper outlines key actions financial institutions can take to improve biodiversity outcomes.
Improving governance on nature-related risks and opportunities
This brief highlights how biodiversity loss poses risks to businesses and urges company directors to integrate nature considerations into strategic planning. It assesses companies' practices using the World Benchmarking Alliance's Nature Benchmark and provides key insights for directors to manage nature-related risks and opportunities, enhancing corporate resilience in a nature-positive transition.
World Bioeconomy Forum
World Bioeconomy Forum (WBF) is dedicated to advancing the bioeconomy, focusing on sustainable development through the use of renewable biological resources. It connects experts, policymakers, and businesses to foster innovation and collaboration. WBF promotes initiatives that enhance resource efficiency and environmental sustainability, driving the transition to a circular bioeconomy.
