M 8 | management.co.nz | JUNE 2018
ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN THE
INVESTMENT SPHERECOVER STORY
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board as a director
in May.
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which considers the collective impact of
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wellbeing. This has recently been adopted by
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used by hundreds of millions of people and by
representing all these people and their spending
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change in the world and rewarding those
businesses doing good things.
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and societal credentials are important to
consumers.
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has the country’s best corporate reputation
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and trust. It is done in partnership with Wright
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a stand and doing the right thing.
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she said in a media release in April.
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to the increasing impact of sustainability on
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and climate action were the emerging hot
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report which surveyed New Zealanders on
environmental and social issues.Ethics is also increasingly evident in the investment
sphere. At the Institute of Directors annual conference
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investment stewardship activities.
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address to the IoD conference was under Chatham
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for corporations to serve a social purpose.
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we managing our impact on the environment? Are
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adapting to technological change? Are we providing
the retraining and opportunities that our employees
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that they invest in a way that will help them achieve
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said in August last year that investment funds in New
Zealand had shifted towards responsible investing in
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Its Responsible Investment Benchmark Report
2017 found that following the controversy around
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massive increase in the use of negative screens to avoid
investments in tobacco and controversial weapons.
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says in a media release. M»