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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 ...

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 ...