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Net Balance: financial, shared value performance related

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... Responsibility - and a professor from the University of Sydney Business School - reviewed five years of sustainability performance data on 287 ASX listed companies. "A CSV score for each company was derived by rating a subset of 26 variables that could ...

MSCI: using ESG ratings can improve portfolio returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... effects on benchmark tracking error. "It definitely shows investors and portfolio managers that you can treat the ESG ratings data in as sophisticated a way as you can treat any other investment analysis factor," said Michael Salvatico, Vice President ...

AXA IM brings ESG metrics to fixed income portfolio analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... Eurozone crisis [of 2009], we saw a definitive difference between the best and worst ESG performing countries." AXA IM used the data in two different fashions - as a negative screen to eliminate countries with significant ESG risks, which can potentially ...

ACCSR reports on state of corporate social responsibility

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... organisational performance targets is possibly used less than other tactics because it requires some progress in CSR and robust data before this exercise can be meaningfully undertaken." Looking to the year ahead, respondents told ACCSR that "building ...

Biologists develop essential variables to track biodiversity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... University, have proposed a global biodiversity monitoring system based on a set of essential biodiversity variables to improve the data feeding biodiversity policy and sustainability metrics. Melodie McGeoch The team of 30 researchers, led by Henrique ...

US$178.5bn in sustainable investments in Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... growing maturity of the sustainable investment industry," said Alexandra Boakes Tracy, chairman of ASrIA, in a statement. "Data can now be collected and analysed both regionally and globally for the benefit of industry players in both developed and emerging ...

Drive to push corporate communication of ESG materiality

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... the report notes that companies often don't relate non-financial information to industry or peer averages, even when that data is available, and that quantifiable ESG data metrics need to be tracked. In addition to investigating written communication ...

Unlisted alt assets as vehicle for accessing sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
Unlisted alternative assets can provide access to sustainability themes without the volatility exposures that come with listed market investments, and Mercer has said it is seeking to identify quality managers in this space. Helga Birgden Mercer's responsible ...

Charter Hall publishes first sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... reported that GRI guidelines have been applied to meet a "C" application level. Independent assurance of energy and greenhouse data was provided by Environmental Resources Management Ltd (ERM) in accordance with the ISAE 3000 assurance methodology.

A view on Woolworths' corporate responsibility report

JOSH DOWSE  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... particularly around advertising and the display of foods. Unlike responsible service leaders like Diageo, for example, there are no data on these issues, just commitments. Serving community Woolworths has a broad program for supporting local communities. ...