ASIC is to receive an extra $4.3 million from the government to crack down on businesses making misleading sustainability claims as part of plans for an Australian Sustai...

CFA Societies Australia is urging asset managers to adopt its voluntary global ESG disclosure standards in a step towards uniformity and transparency for investors....

A few days after being fined by ASIC over alleged greenwashing, Vanguard has exited the global Net Zero Asset Managers alliance....

Vanguard has received three infringement notices from ASIC over alleged greenwashing regarding overstating investment screens intended to prevent investment in tobacco sa...

Greenwashing is a resounding theme for environmental, social and governance (ESG) investors, specifically the regulatory action directed at fund classifications, a Barcla...

There are nine questions that fund managers need to ask themselves when launching a fund in order to prevent greenwashing, according to ASIC....

Stock weightings of ‘sustainable’ passive exchange traded funds are overwhelmingly driven by market capitalisation not climate scores, taking capital away from companies ...

Incorporating the gas sector into Asian taxonomies risks diluting standards and discourages new pools of green capital, according to the Institute for Energy Economics an...

Tools such as text mining of shareholder reports are used to determine if a firm is making unsubstantiated claims about its ethical and environmental practices. ...

Solving today’s sustainability challenges will be funded by debt, writes Chris Dastoor, meaning it is worth investors considering ESG in their fixed income allocations. ...

Funds are unlikely to be deliberately guilty of greenwashing but nevertheless, writes Laura Dew, they need to have transparent processes in place to prevent investors fee...

Investors and trustees need to ask fund managers for reporting metrics on specific environmental, social, and governance issues they claim they are solving, according to ...