South African banks and climate risk: latest developments

Standard Bank releases disappointing Coal-Fired Power Finance Policy.

Pension fund boards must take climate change into account, or risk legal action

Just Share and ClientEarth have published a new legal opinion by a leading South African pension lawyer, which finds that the boards of South African pension...

Standard Bank tables first SA shareholder resolution on climate risk, but Board recommends shareholders vote against it

Standard Bank’s Notice of Annual General Meeting, released on 17 April 2019, includes a resolution proposed by shareholders that would require the bank to prepare a...

Are your pension investments contributing to inequality?

In 2018, a World Bank report found that inequality had deepened in South Africa since the start of democracy, and ranked the country the most unequal...

What does the PIC teach us about responsible investment?

It would be hard to overstate the importance of the Public Investment Corporation to the South African economy and to our society more broadly.

Investment for Inclusion series: Part 2 of 6

In the last 20 years, millions of glossy pages of “sustainability reporting” have been unleashed on the world. But it is clear...

Investment for Inclusion series: Part 1 of 6

Investment for Inclusion series: Part 1 of 6 - On 6 March 2019 in Johannesburg, Just Share will convene the Investment for Inclusion Forum...

Just Share's submissions on the 2018 Companies Amendment Bill

On 21 September 2018, the Department of Trade and Industry published the Companies Amendment Bill, 2018 for public comment.

Just Share's response to the JSE Consultation Paper

On 19 September, the JSE published for public comment a “Consultation Paper on possible regulatory responses to recent events surrounding listed issuers and trading in their...

Climate change is a risk to your investments and retirement

Neither our government nor our private sector is acting fast enough to mitigate carbon emissions or prepare for the impacts of climate change. This failure to...

Shareholder activism in SA - a shuffle rather than a shift

The growing trend of asset managers voting against executive remuneration policies at JSE-listed companies is a small step, not a giant leap, in the use of...

Interview: Tracey Davies on Just Share

Just Share is also trying to change the way that companies behave around social and environmental issues. Stephen Gunnion spoke to executive director, Tracey Davies, to...