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UCA Funds Management adds Nine Entertainment Company to exclusions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2016  |  NEWS
... exposure in the major products. We know [Nine] is the market leader, we know the industry average, and the rest of the materiality comes from the nature of what we've described." UCA Funds Management is not currently invested in Nine Entertainment. The ...

Westpac, Stockland named DJSI group industry leaders

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2016  |  NEWS
... policy and management systems, while they scored lowest in operational eco-efficiency, human capital development, and materiality, which was a new criterion for 2016. Companies showed the most improvement relative to 2015 in corporate citizenship and ...

EY, UN Global Compact evaluate state of sustainable supply chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2016  |  NEWS
... knowledge of the systemic issues to design a holistic solution. Other steps to increase sustainability include assessing materiality of issues to focus on the most pressing issues, with particular focus on the UN Global Compact principles; aligning resources ...

Cbus signs Global Statement on Investor Obligations and Duties

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... funds to disclose material risks and how they manage them, but leaves it up the discretion of the funds to determine materiality. The statement will enable PRI and UNEP FI to work with organisations including the G7, the G20, the OECD and the European ...

Companies aware of Sustainable Development Goals: ACCSR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... Respondents told ACCSR that they were undertaking activities to address the goals they that they found of highest materiality to their business, particularly engaging in strategic partnerships. This reflects understanding that the issues behind each ...

Materiality analysis helps define sustainability issues: GRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2016  |  NEWS
Investors and corporations agree that materiality analysis is important to define "the most important sustainability issues," according to research from the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and RobecoSAM. GRI and RobecoSAM have published Defining What ...

GRI releases drafts for first six GRI Standards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... Standards are meant to use the three universal standards and then choose the relevant topic-specific standards based on materiality. GRI noted that in addition to improving structure, format and presentation, the GRI Standards' content has been edited ...

Nordea joins Corporate Human Rights Benchmark

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
... are very pleased to be part of this important initiative which we believe will raise the level of awareness of the materiality of human rights and help companies meet investor expectations on human rights." The benchmark has been developed by fund managers ...

Six Australian companies get gold in RobecoSAM yearbook

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
... Sustainability Assessment (CSA) to reflect upcoming sustainability trends and increasing insights in the financial materiality of underlying factors," said Daniel Wild, PhD, head of sustainability investing research and development, member of the RobecoSAM ...

Sustainability reporting improving, room to grow: WBCSD

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... Reporting matters finds that 62% of companies have improved their disclosures since the first report in 2014, and materiality disclosures in particular have shown the greatest signs of improvement, WBCSD said. The report found that 88% of companies in ...