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ASX report shows companies' progress on gender diversity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... attributes in amber, plus has good representation of women on boards and/or senior management, evidence of progress, good data reportage and adoption of Principle 3. "At least 61% of companies are making some progress w/ diversity in regards to the Principle ...

Sustainability reports a driver of action and engagement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... When you set out some numbers and you put in trends so you can see year on year how you're doing, and you have benchmark data with the rest of the sector, that's an important driver for improving performance." Sustainability reporting also provide information ...

ESG disclosures relevant to investors' decision-making

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... recognized support to improve their sustainability reporting practice, and prepare more focused reports. This is the performance data we are all looking for."

Environmental, economic risks also present opportunities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... technological risks, and so there's a pathway. R &D goes through the regulatory risk to some of the other ones, such as online data security, that really ties into another latent social risk - cyber-security." See Also: Climate change top perceived likely ...

Transparency International publishes anti-corruption report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... including subsidiaries, affiliates, joint-ventures and other holdings and country-by-country reporting on basic financial data and community contributions," according to the report. "Multinational corporations can and must play a significant role in ...

Companies, investors prepared for carbon price launch

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... disclosure will strengthen as time passes. "I think it's fair to say that companies were cautious about disclosure of their data in the market," Fabian said. "Not all companies of course. For example, BHP, AGL and a number of leading companies have been ...

Women make gains on corporate boards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... BDI tracks the representation of women on the boards of 850 Australian organisations, and the most recent index is based on data current as of January 2012. The ASX200 has shown the highest level of percentage increase of appointments of women across ...

Perpetual to extend ESG dashboard to fixed income space

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... residential mortgage backed securities in the fixed income ESG analysis, which presents challenges in gathering adequate data because most ESG research is focused on companies as opposed to asset-backed securities. "The challenge with fixed income is ...

AusLSA to provide access to environmental measurement tool

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... partnered with Greenstone Carbon Management on the reporting solution, which will allow members to input business consumption data including electricity, paper, waste and business travel, and calculate the environmental footprint. "The online Environmental ...

Australia in top ten for GRI sustainability reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... with a 32% increase over 2010 and real estate, with a 16% increase over 2010. GRI launched its database in November 2011 and data is collected via reports registered directly with GRI, through one of GRI's data partners, through GRI's application level ...