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SVA: Newpin social benefit bond returns 7.5% in first year

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... maintenance of existing centres, and the planned expansion of six more centres in New South Wales. "Based on the first year's data - which is one year in a seven year program - the first year's performance is meeting expectations," said Ian Learmonth ...

Diversity Council Australia measures the bamboo ceiling

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... leadership, specifically around Asian cultural capability," said Lisa Annese, DCA's CEO. "I think we knew it, but now we have the data." The report cites four main barriers preventing people of Asian cultural background from ascending in Australian companies ...

Learning from Europe's example in social investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... Currently, given the relatively short timescale of the formal social investment/social enterprise movement, there is not enough data to define general modalities of success, but Addarii pointed to several case studies of what is working, and particularly ...

Net Balance: sustainability assurance increase in ASX200

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
A total of 43 ASX200 companies assured their sustainability data in 2013, according to research from Net Balance that also finds an emerging trend of companies assuring human rights disclosures in addition to environmental data. This is Net Balance's ...

PRI to target water risk in agricultural supply chains

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... because agriculture supply chains are complex, water risks are localised and dispersed, and there is a limited availability of data. "The research found a strong correlation between individual company revenue and estimated water consumption in water ...

JANA: Majority of fixed income managers consider ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... research and limited capacity to engage with issuers as the most commonly cited barriers. "There's a lack of general information/data about ESG factors in the context of fixed income," Carew said. "There isn't that body of academic research as there ...

CDP: World cities report climate change business impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... those countries. As a result, the total number of cities reporting their climate change risks, emissions and water management data tripled within these two countries, compared with last year. This is not only good practice for those cities, but also ...

PRI signatory assets top US$45 trillion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... reaching 1,260, PRI said. Fiona Reynolds, UN PRI managing director "The updated figures come after analysis of the most rigorous data set on global responsible investment activity ever collected by the PRI," said Fiona Reynolds, PRI managing director. ...

ACSI: companies paid premium for rights issue underwriting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... and Mike Harut, governance and engagement analyst at ACSI and the report's author, emphasised that the report is based on data from pro-rata rights issues, which companies must disclose. ACSI were not able to assess non-pro-rata, private placements ...

KPMG finds companies invest $12.2bn in social programs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... world require a lot more quantification? Absolutely." In addition to, and related to, the lack of strategic reporting and data-gathering around the impacts and outputs of social investment, the paper also found that companies invest in five different ...