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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. ...

NAB Asset Servicing developing ESG overlay tool

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... administrative services to institutional investors, recently launched FundEdge, a reporting platform designed to provide data transparency. At the moment, FundEdge provides reporting solutions including counterparty exposure reporting and asset allocation ...

Local Government Super leader on managing climate risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... have to address proxy voting policies, change our database systems covering our fund managers to record emissions intensity data, all the way up the investment change and create a hedging strategy about this issue, where previously we'd only hedge foreign ...

ClimateWorks Australia developing GHG reductions index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... some opportunities are implemented and others are not, ClimateWorks said. "Our research means for the first time national data on low carbon activity across economic sectors will be brought together in a comprehensive and comparable way," Garvin said. ...

More women appointed to ASX200 boards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... nomination committee. AICD said in the report that the ASX200 Snapshot Report will be expanded in 2013 to capture similar data in the not-for-profit sector and the ASX 500.

Government bodies not effectively speaking on sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... I do five different reports to five different bodies with the same information? Why is my sustainability team pumping out data rather than getting on with fixing things?" Another area where governmental communication was poorly rated was around authenticity ...

Companies with carbon targets see higher reductions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... meet the IPCC target of 1.7% annual reductions in CO2e by 2020," CDP Carbon Action say in their 2012 report. Based on the data from responding companies in the high-emitting industries, investment in behavioural change had the highest internal rate of ...

MSCI: Asia Pacific, EU green building market show potential

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... their returns, as government and market incentives continue to drive demand for greener spaces," the report said. "Market data from [Investment Property Databank] IPD shows that this is the case for properties that demonstrate higher operational efficiency ...