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CDSB, TCFD launch knowledge hub for organisational implementation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
... make it easier for companies to take the steps necessary to provide transparency to the capital markets about how the company identifies, measures, manages and mitigates climate-related financial risk. With more companies providing case studies and best ...

Regnan research finds correlation between company performance, conduct culture

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018  |  NEWS
There is a positive correlation between share performance of a company and executive management of ethics and conduct culture, according to new research from Regan. Pauline Vamos, Regnan chief executive Regnan has published an extract of research conducted ...

Ausbil outlines 2017 engagement activities in annual report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... find that quite rewarding, particularly on human rights in the supply chain," Carlsson-Sweeny said. "For example, one company we invest in - I've asked them to put more emphasis on supply chain consolidation. That has financial benefit, but you also ...

Majority of ASX200 boards gravitate to known candidates for board positions: 30% Club

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... they are selecting new directors, according to new data from the 30% Club. The 30% Club and the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) conducted the survey, and said that directors reported "it is easier to imagine working with someone who ...

Improved disclosure in fashion supply chain: Baptist World Aid Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... living wage. Managing human rights risks in the supply chain is important to the long term financial sustainability of a company, Nimbalker said. "When I talk to colleagues at work in the investment area, they say that there's a strong correlation between ...

ESG analysis important to emerging market credit: Insight Investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... that the fund manager calls ESG one of five "landmine" risks - risk that lie outside a balance sheet that could explode a company's investment return in certain cases. "These are risks that you don't necessarily do a typical cash flow or data analysis ...

Rising importance of sustainability in the commercial real estate industry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... factoring in environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosures as a critical way to measure risk and the drivers of a company's financial performance. The drivers The rise in importance of ESG disclosures is due to a number of reasons. First, the ...

Examining the corporate governance implications of share buybacks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... MSCI ESG Research. "One of the things you could do with money if you weren't investing in R&D, you could build a bigger company buying up smaller companies. That trend seems to have been replaced by the new emphasis on returning value to shareholders. ...

Man Group analyses tobacco considerations in investment strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... a zero perfect threshold, so it's genuinely a no-go area, for pooled as well as individual mandates." For tobacco, the company is led by investor mandates, Mitchell told The Sustainability Report. "Our current thinking is that we leave it up to our clients ...

Protecting impact from Greenwash - Duncan Paterson

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... other words, if the investor wasn't holding those shares, would that make a difference to the positive impacts of the company issuing the shares? The answer is fairly obviously no - the public equity market is characterised by its liquidity, with shares ...