Regulators and insurers around the world are pushing for more transparency about companies exposure to fossil fuels and climate change.

S&P Dow Jones runs all the major indices and a number of smaller indices, like ones that just have small companies in them and now indices that only have companies that meet environmental social and corporate governance criteria.

S&P Dow Jones CEO Alex Matturri joined me in the studio.

It was all green on the local market. Michael McCarthy from CMC Markets speaks to Elysse.

The end of the road for conventional cars is getting closer as more nations join the push to ban petrol and diesel vehicles. It comes with the globe's biggest carmakers locked in a race to roll out new generations of all electric cars and the key to it all is lithium, the mineral needed for batteries.

Most of the world's supply is coming out of Western Australia which is driving a new wave of mining investment.

James Pearson is the CEO of the peak employer group, the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

The local share market has closed lower after being down all day. Julia Lee from Bell Direct speaks to Carrington.

The $50b NBN rollout comes with the promise of super fast broadband speed but the fastest speeds come with some of the highest monthly charges in the world.

Now one of Australia's leading telecommunications experts is calling for the government to write off half the value of the NBN as the only way to deliver affordable high download speeds.

Australian designers can compete on the world stage but experts say it's the wild west when it comes to legal protection for their designs. UK and European laws protect designers with stiff fines for copy cats, but designers in Australia get little protection from counterfeiters. That's leading to increasing calls for Australia's intellectual property laws to be toughened.

Listed investment companies or LICs are essentially companies that list, then buy shares in other companies. This means investors get exposure to a range of stocks by just buying one.

Investment firm 'Magellan' is launching a listed investment trust, which CEO Hamish Douglass predicts will overtake LICs as an investment platform.

The All Ords and the ASX 200 finished the day just marginally up. Evan Lucas from The Lucas Review speaks to Elysse.

The under bidders for Australia ailing Ten Network, billionaires Bruce Gordon and Lachlan Murdoch aren't going down without a fight. WIN network owner Bruce Gordon fired the first shot in the supreme court. He successfully argued that next week's creditors meeting should be postponed.