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Managing ESG reputation can benefit corporate value

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... importance." Reputation can impact on valuation of a company, said Philipp Aeby, chief executive officer of RepRisk, a provider of data on ESG risks for companies and projects. While company boards consider core business failure to be the biggest risk ...

Sustainability reporting a source of key business value

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... through bodies such as the Principles for Responsible Investment. "There's been a crescendo in the importance of this other data that is important from cap markets valuation perspective," Ridehalgh said. "The NYSE500 shows that of valuation on that stock ...

Labour rights, NGO activism and governance cited as ESG trends

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
Increased environmental and social activism by non-governmental organisations (NGOs), the rising importance of human and labour rights as a social issue for companies and a divergence between considerations of governance and social and environmental ...

Sedex Global partners with World Bank Institute on platform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... the Open Supply Chain Platform, an initiative aimed at companies' transparency and performance in responsible supply chain data. The Open Supply Chain Platform will provide a free, global online platform for "companies of all sizes to upload, share and ...

ASX companies lag global peers in disclosing water risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... questionnaire are able to measure and report their water withdrawals within operations, but only 43% verify the majority of their data, versus 60% of Global 500 respondents. CDP notes that this trend "Getting verification on the agenda is something that ...

IGCC: climate financing achievable, but needs policy clarity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... IPCC estimates that total climate finance for mitigation and adaptation is estimated at US$343 to US$385 billion, based on data gathered on the years 2010-2012. But scaling up investment in low carbon sources requires "different patterns of investment" ...

Combining quality measures with ESG can yield higher returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... combination with ESG rankings can provide, on average, an additional 1.4% of alpha annually. Quality adds an uncorrelated set of data because quality analyses different indicators, said Michael Hunstad, head of quantitative research global equity management ...

Investors say non-financials matter in investment decisions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... industry peers. "A lot of investors are actually taking their decisions from a range of information sources, and there no one data protocol to rely on," Bell said. "What's interesting is that for those investors that say they don't use [non-financial] ...

GRESB launches 2014 survey

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... objectives and actions to implement those policies and to reach defined objectives. It measures environmental performance data regarding energy and water consumption, GHG emissions and waste, and investigates the use of voluntary standards and certification ...

ESG integration into quantitative investment management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... and social factors as part of quantitative investment techniques in equity portfolios, with fund managers integrating ESG data to either screen out undesired stocks, or to create customised benchmarks that tilt away from companies with poorer ESG scores ...