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SAM targets 2,500 companies for sustainability assessment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... and crisis management, human capital development and the quality of environmental and social reporting. After analysing the data, SAM selects the top 10% in each industry sector for inclusion in the DJSI World Indexes, which will be published in September. ...

Q&A with Nelmara Arbex, deputy chief executive, GRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... companies prepare the same information in the same format. There is a huge universe of freedom that impacts the quality of data, the understanding of data, etc. This, of course, is a point of attack for information users, or NGOs, or people campaigning ...

Investors weigh meaning of social return on investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... in our explanation." Foresters does measure social impact and social value of its work, and has focused on structuring its data reporting systems to measure the value generated when an organisation comes to them to apply for a loan. "What we're doing ...

RIAA to join in global report on responsible investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... which built on the success of last year's inaugural gathering in New York City." Each participating organisation will collect data in its home market. The decision to collaborate on the trends report was made as part of a summit in London. The groups ...

Investors require more corporate ESG disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Conference on Sustainability and Integrated Reporting that investors need "materiality plus data quality and consistency" when it comes to disclosure of ESG to allow them to make informed investment decisions. Citing ...

Companies should present negative sustainability performance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... Social Responsibility (ACCSR) that they feel "anger, anxiety or concern" when reading a sustainability report. ACCSR analysed data it collected from 16 research projects conducted between 2006 and 2011, relating to the way stakeholders perceive sustainability ...

Voluntary sustainability disclosures carry legal weight

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... voluntary disclosures of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues must ensure that any statements can be backed up by data and they must be aware that disclosures to reporting frameworks such as the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) will be evaluated ...

Q&A with James Gifford, executive director of the UNPRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... hoping that asset owners use it as a structured dialogue with the investment managers. We hope investment consultants use the data to help evaluate managers on their ESG performance, at least on that first cut. If we can embed that tool into the relationship ...

Government grants $1.9m for geothermal exploration study

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
National ICT Australia (NICTA) has received an AU$1.9m government grant towards a project to provide enhanced data for targeted geothermal exploration. NICTA's two-year AU$5m project will use its capabilities in machine learning in conjunction with ...

Women only 19% of superannuation fund trustee boards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... superannuation adequacy." In 2011, AIST published a report into Australian women's experiences in retirement. Using available data from the Australian Burean of Statistics, AIST estimated that the median superannuation balance for women aged between ...