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Sedex notes increasing demand for ethical procurement data

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... allows suppliers to share performance with buyers in areas such as labour, health and safety, environment and business ethics. Buyers that use Sedex access targeted, verified information on material risks while reducing duplication of effort in supplier ...

Gaps in retailers' labour and human rights policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... tragedy do focus the mind on what the issues are in this space. There has to be a multiple strategy for how we deal with the ethics of the supply chain in Australian companies." Organisations such as Oxfam Australia can assist in the process because ...

End of Financial Year time for tax, ethical investment check

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... year is an opportunity for investors to consider how their superannuation money is being invested from both a tax and an ethics perspective, according to Australian Ethical. In a recent communication, the ethical superannuation and fund management provider ...

CPA Australia issues SME sustainability assurance guide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... SME side as well." The assurance guide follows on from another tool CPA Australia developed together with the St James Ethics Centre, the Good Business Register, which addresses sustainability reporting for SMEs. Businesses reported that in addition ...

Industry leaders establish Banking and Finance Oath

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... behaviour in the financial services industry. Stephen Dunne, AMP Capital The BFO is an initiative of the Banking and Finance Ethics Panel, a working group led industry representatives including AMP Capital, Commonwealth Bank, MLC and Morgan Stanley ...

Disruptive innovation, ESG factors pose media sector risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... additionally, there are also social and governance issues that are impacting the sector, particularly the increased focus on ethics and governance shortcomings in some boards, such as lack of independent directors. "Media companies are in a transition ...

Bradbury highlights corporate ESG reporting inconsistencies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... just how significantly social media has changed the rules of the game," Bradbury said. "...While I make no comment on the ethics or otherwise of Mr Harvey's involvement in this campaign, I think this example shows that under the new rules of the game ...

Microfinance a source of financial and social return

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... full time ESG analyst, devoted to researching ESG issues and considering ethical issues that might arise. The board has an ethics committee to act as the checks and balances to make sure we're acting in ways to protect society and the environment." Macready ...

Apparel industry exposed to social risk in supply chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... particularly when there are other areas for improved efficiency in the supply chains." "We're interested in looking at the ethics of the companies we invest in but there is the financial side as well," said Ian Woods, AMP Capital Investors' head of sustainable ...

James Thier retires from Australian Ethical

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... money with us because they wanted to do the right thing. "The next generation saw that the returns were pretty ok and the ethics were great. The third generation, which came on in the early 2000s, are people who recognized that we were top of the pile ...