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Matt Comyn reflected on the bank’s past failings during a conference in Melbourne on Thursday.

Arrogant, insular, ignorant: Commonwealth Bank chief reflects on bank’s past failings

CBA boss chief Matt Comyn says the bank’s success led to complacency, ignorance and arrogance within its ranks.

  • Simone Fox Koob

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Healthcare companies in the ASX200 are lagging behind other sectors when it comes to ESG reporting.

Healthcare pain point: Sector lags on ESG disclosure, report finds

However, almost all ASX 200 companies now disclose to investors how they are managing ESG risks with only 12 not reporting at all.

  • Simone Fox Koob
Big losses: Elon Musk.

Has ESG investing been ‘twisted to insanity’?

Ethical investors have been blamed for preventing the west from building up their fossil-fuel supplies and ridiculed for missing out on soaring commodity prices.

  • Charlotte Grieve
Irithmics founders Grant Fuller and Balázs Boros, who say 14 per cent of the ASX-100 is exposed to their technology.

‘Weaponising the share register’: ASX 100 exposed to ‘green shorting’

A UK-based data analytics firm, inspired by epidemiology, is using artificial intelligence to help activist investors maximise profits from short selling stock in companies with poor records on climate change.

  • Charlotte Grieve

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