First Sentier Investors / FSSA Investment Managers / Stewart Investors / RQI / Igneo (the Company) is committed to maintaining high standards of corporate governance, ethics and behaviour in all of its activities, as part of which the Company requires that its employees display the highest levels of professionalism in all aspects of their work to facilitate compliance with its Code of Conduct and all applicable laws.
The Company is also committed to maintaining a culture where all employees feel empowered to report misconduct and to feel protected from retaliation when doing so.
In Australia it includes current and former employees of the Company. It also applies to suppliers (and employees of suppliers), and relatives and dependants of any of these people. In Ireland, it includes job applicants.
Individuals as noted above with information in relation to misconduct (including unethical, illegal, corrupt or other inappropriate conduct) are encouraged to contact the Company’s Whistleblower Protection Officer by making a report through the whistleblower telephone hotline or website.
The hotline and website are hosted by a third party hotline provider, EthicsPoint. The information you provide will be sent to us by EthicsPoint on a totally confidential and anonymous basis if you should choose. See the EthicsPoint FAQs and Privacy Statement for more information on the service and how personal information is processed by EthicsPoint.
If you disclose personal information about yourself or others through the whistleblower telephone hotline or website it will be treated by the Company confidentially and processed in accordance with the Company’s global Privacy Notice and any specific privacy notice relevant to your location.