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Shareholders to face activist lobbying on Woolworths vote

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... comes to corporate, responsibility, openness and transparency, Woolworths has a proud track record. We have extensive engagement and collaboration with a large number of NGOs and for the past five years we have taken expert independent advice from a ...

Companies, investors prepared for carbon price launch

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... cap and trade will become a normal part of risk and return considerations, said Phil Spathis, manager, strategy and engagement at the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI). "I think there will be an impact on behaviour, an incentive as ...

MSCI launches ESG portfolio analytics tool

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... reporting needs for the UN PRI and can be used to conduct internal ESG risk assessment and identify targets for company engagement.

Australian Ethical management survive general meeting vote

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... from 50 people in the business to 38 to be more efficient." Vernon and Smith said the company's ethical mission and engagement would not be changed. The company's Climate Advocacy Fund, an indexed fund explicitly designed to permit increased engagement ...

Investor Profile: Five Oceans Asset Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... the risk and return profile of the biz gives us the potential for a suitable outcome for our portfolios. Q: How about engagement and monitoring for the companies within Asian portfolios? How does that work? RY: A lot of what we do actually tends to skew ...

Banks' plans address Indigenous hiring, financial exclusion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... their specific business strategy, all are aimed at improving outcomes in the three main areas of employment, community engagement and ameliorating financial exclusion. It is also being quietly discussed that not only are these activities part of the ...

Perpetual to extend ESG dashboard to fixed income space

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... reports, said Pablo Berrutti, manager - responsible investment and sustainability at Perpetual. "Some want to use it as engagement tool - we've had a couple of analysts that have gone into company meetings and put it down in front of CEOs and chairmen ...

AusLSA to provide access to environmental measurement tool

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... using the online portal it is hard to separate the impact of its introduction with increasing membership and membership engagement," Wilson noted. "Anecdotally, feedback from LSA(UK) members is that it has greatly enhanced the reporting process." The ...

Skills shortage in oil and gas sector a material ESG risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
Oil and gas companies are exposed to skills shortages in their workforce, and that exposure and companies' strategic responses pose risks to health and safety, to the environment, and to capital expenditure projects for exploration and production, according ...

LGS audit finds ASX has higher carbon, lower ESG risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... to ESG risks in those sectors where issues are more material. Hartnett said the audit is being used as the basis for engagement with their external equity managers to discuss how they integrate carbon and ESG risk into their investment processes. "We ...