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The rest will go hybrid, according to research by responsible investment charity ShareAction.

A partnership involving the Melbourne Zoo, the Australian Defence Force and a Wollithiga Elder has returned an historic scar tree to Torrumbarry after 30 years of “c...

Becoming your own boss is a big step. So it’s understandable for anyone embarking on a career as a self-employed travel homeworker to feel anxious.

It was the worst oil spill Marathon Petroleum had seen in years. A crack in a 60-year-old underground pipeline released 1,400 barrels of diesel fuel into an Indiana creek, staining the banks of the waterway and threatening a population of endangered freshwater mussels.

Investors help push Tesco to increase healthy food sales May 11 , 2021 A group of investors who had pressured Tesco to provide higher sales of healthy food got their wish this week as the UK retailer announced plans to improve nutritious options in its stores. Tesco, which had committed to lifting sales of healthy products to 65% at UK stores, promised to carry the commitment to its Booker and Central European businesses, which led to Share Action’s 100-plus investors effectively dropping a ...

Tesco is extending its new health strategy across its wider group, including Booker. Booker’s new health commitments will focus on providing a greater

By Jon Hay 05 May 2021 A small band of committed investors in Tesco has achieved spectacular success with a shareholder motion on healthy food. This should embolden investors to hold issuers to account on a wider range of social matters — and also contains a deeper lesson about how markets bring about change. To listen to some in the capital markets, environmental, social and governance investing is all about numbers. Investors, they argue, need to build up better data about companies’ — ...

What constitutes best practice when it comes to engagement? Stewardship and engagement at the forefront of investors’ minds as this year’s proxy voting season draws nearer Stewardship and engagement will be at the forefront of ESG investors’ minds this year, with regulation such as the new UK Stewardship Code having taken effect, and this year’s proxy voting season drawing closer. And onlookers would say rightly so, as shown by last year’s Boohoo scandal where a number of ethical fund...

Representatives of customers, suppliers, staff and local communities should automatically be given the right to attend company annual meetings and make presentations, according to a campaigning group