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Companies, investors cite overlapping materiality: GRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... GRI and RobecoSAM. In the report, Defining Materiality: What Matters to Reporters and Investors, GRI and RobecoSAM analysed data from companies in two sectors - technology hardware and equipment and banks and diverse financials. The research focused ...

Government retains gender equity reporting framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
Companies with more than 100 employees will continue reporting gender equality data to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA), but the government has removed several requirements that were due to commence in April. Lisa Annese, CEO, Diversity Council ...

Funds using custodian to monitor ESG mandates: J.P. Morgan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... environmental, social and governance (ESG) requirements, according to J. P. Morgan Investor Services. Custodians are the repository of data on asset level and security-level exposures, and are often used by clients to monitor on implementation of outsourced ...

Global sustainable investments rise to US$21.4tr: GSIA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... the Responsible Investment Association Australasia's (RIAA) 2014 Benchmark Report. RIAA is a member of GSIA and contributed data to the report. The most common sustainable investing strategy globally is negative/exclusionary screening, which affects ...

Assessing likely process, impacts of first ERF auction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... that participants will be prohibited from disclosing pricing information to industry bodies for the purposes of contributing data for price modelling development, Lauber-Patterson said. "The contractual clause from the government seems to say that participants ...

Teachers Mutual Bank leads in community investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... employee was AU$573. "Community contributions as a [percentage] of pre-tax profit decreased this year," LBG said in the report. "Data over 9 years has shown little change overall with the average standing at 0.54%. Contributions as a [percentage] of ...

NSW develops first social impact investment policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... per year, the policy also commits to publishing social impact investment principles, publishing benchmark cost and outcomes data, delivering a social impact investment statement of opportunities, holding a series of social impact investment roundtables ...

ACSI sets goal of 30% women on ASX200 boards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... performance. We have been pleased with recent improvements on gender diversity, but these come from a very low base. Our data show that unless we see an accelerated number of women appointed to ASX 200 boards, further progress will be unacceptably slow," ...

Supply chain vulnerable to climate change risk: CDP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... courtesy of CDP) CDP's Supply chain sustainability revealed: a country comparison. CDP supply chain report 2014-15 collected data from 3,396 companies on behalf of 66 multinational purchasers that work with CDP on environmental risks and impacts to the ...

GRI creates two leadership groups for future discussion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... for society in the next 10 years and how they will affect business and disclosures, the role of new technologies and big data in reporting, how organisations can connect sustainability and value creation, and how businesses will communicate about sustainability ...