Asian firms grow domestic investor base, new data shows
Asian ownership of domestic firms increased by 12 percentage points in 2021, with 70 percent of shareholders coming from the...
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Reporting Archive
Climate change tops ESG issues list for Australia and New Zealand investors
TCFD, GRI and SASB are the three most-adopted ESG reporting frameworks among Australasian companies, according to a survey from...
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The truth about ‘lie detector’ AI and machine-learning disclosure analysis
In most cases, effective communication is intuitive – you know it when you hear it. As an IR professional, you’re likely a natural...
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ESG on the earnings call: Getting senior management involved
‘I find that if your earnings call just speaks to your financials, you’re not going to have too much participation from the...
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Climate-change exposure: 90 percent of largest firms have at least one asset at risk
More than nine in 10 (92 percent) of the world’s largest firms have at least one asset at ‘high risk’ to physical hazards caused...
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Five things we learned from the GCC earnings season
Equity markets of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have outperformed most other regions and indices in 2022, and this trend...
TCFD reporting drives ESG integration in annual reports
The introduction of mandatory TCFD reporting is helping to boost awareness of climate-related risk and making ESG the thread that...
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Sustainability and diversity shortfalls in institutional investor reporting, reveals new research
Most of the reporting from major institutional investors analyzed against stewardship themes by strategic communications firm...
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FTSE 100 firms without ESG board committees a ‘shrinking minority,’ notes study
The majority of FTSE 100 companies now have an ESG board committee in place as the UK’s blue chips boost their governance...
Beyond ESG reporting disconnects between issuers and institutional investors
It may not feel like it, but we’re still in the early stages of the evolution of ESG reporting. It took at least half a century to...
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