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IIRC CEO favours market-led adoption of Integrated Reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... consultation draft, it's fairly obvious that we could be clearer that it's a fundamental concept, not a reporting requirement. People are not necessarily seeing it that way. There are other issues around the capitals as well - some people think they ...

Fund managers assess retailers' risks in Bangladesh

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... factory in Bangladesh last month. Mans Carlsson-Sweeny, AMP Capital The factory collapse, which has left more than 1,100 people dead, has highlighted risks for Australian retailers that source products manufactured overseas. Horrific incidents like Rana ...

CSA calls for "safe harbour" to encourage IR disclosures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... at the end of that, you're going to report on that. That's the final stage and mandating integrated reporting means that people focus on the report as a compliance obligation." The International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) released the consultation ...

Reconciliation Australia receives $14.4m in budget funding

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... indigenous employment, hiring and greater cultural awareness. "Tens of thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait lslander people are directly benefiting from jobs, business transactions and educational opportunities created through RAP actions," said ...

SEFA makes second loan, funds affordable housing purchase

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... group un a relatively economically disadvantaged area," Rickards said. "The aim of the community group is to keep retired people in the community." Myrtle Park Retirement Homes Inc. will offer retirees living in the site discounted rental rates - the ...

Ethinvest model portfolios outperform wider ASX indices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... constructed around negative screens. Companies that are given a red rating - companies that Etinvest deems as being damaging to people or the environment - are excluded from investments. Investments are then made in companies rated yellow for doing no ...

ACSI names leaders, laggards in ESG reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... managed because there are risks to the companies that they need to be aware of, and there's been sufficient incidences where people have been caught out. For example, given recent events, all of the consumer discretionary companies might be looking at ...

ESG risks impact transport sector earnings, share price

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... the transport sector than elsewhere.... If you have a poor safety performance, it makes it that much harder to attract people to you, for example. That's one of the indirect costs, but it's hard to quantify that." Indirect costs include production disruptions ...

National Sustainability Council issues macro-theme report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... report notes that over the past 20 years, there have been large improvements in educational attainment - by 2012, 80% of people aged 20-64 had completed Year 12, a vocational or higher qualification, up from 60% in 1994 and the percentage of women with ...

CEFC evaluating potential project commitments ahead of July

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... number of transactions that then would be funded by the first of July but committed before then. We are seeing a lot of people make proposals to us, about potential funding opportunities. While it's early days and some people still confuse us with a ...