As pressure from Australian institutional investors builds on companies to improve their diversity, equity, and inclusion, there are signs that progress is also being made across Asia.
Gender Equality
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With a $30 million investment, APG is anchoring a transformative bond designed to empower women entrepreneurs in Asia and Africa’s emerging markets by merging investor returns with meaningful social progress.
A company’s intentions and targets are no longer enough for investors, according to the two asset owners.
Hong Kong's Financial Leaders Investment Summit held on Nov 7-8 boasted close to 60 speakers and moderators, of which only seven were women. Finance is still very much a man's world, it seems.
The country is taking the lead in Asia, even as difficulties finding accurate quantitative information continue to plague the sector.
Listed companies in Japan are being pushed to place greater emphasis on environmental, social and governance standards, with Japan's GPIF, the world's largest pension fund, leading that charge.
The head of ESG at the leading Dutch pension fund notes that investing in Asia requires accommodating social or working practices that may differ from those in Europe. He also flagged a gap in information.
