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Pengana selects WHEB Asset Management to manage Hunter Hall Global Deep Green Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
... planet in the next few decades and how we can address the social challenges and environmental challenges," Myers said. "Any company that makes it into the portfolio has to earn at least 30% of its revenue from solving some of these challenges, and one ...

Nuveen launches two new ESG exchange traded funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
... each sector are included in the index construction process," O'Brien said. "The ESG criteria also consider how well a company adheres to national and international laws and regulations as well as commonly accepted global norms related to ESG matters. ...

Will Australia adopt the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures recommendations?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
... users of disclosure receive additional information from the choices made by disclosers. For example, when a disclosing company produces risk assessment and disclosure which are sub-par, this quality in itself is indicative of the quality of governance. ...

Carnegie Clean Energy to participate in global partnership to push Sustainable Development Goals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
... achieving Goal 7 - affordable and clean energy. "It is an incredible honour to be recognised by the US State Department as the company to lead in delivering against the affordable and clean energy goal," said Dr Michael Ottaviano, CEO of Carnegie Clean ...

Sustainable Platform assesses database of companies against SDGs, performance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
... said Dr Mark A. Andrich, the founder of the SustainablePlatform. "Rather than take a best in class or look at whether a company is sustainable itself.' approach, we ask, 'does the company meet the definition of sustainable development and how does its ...

New South Wales Treasury Corporation joins ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
... the addition of TCorp, ACSI's membership now manage over $1.5 trillion in assets and own more than 11% of every ASX200 company, ACSI said. "By harnessing our collective rights and interests and actively engaging with boards, we seek to influence the ...

VicSuper affirms status as a tobacco-free superannuation fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
... and the impacts of its production on soils," Vigeo Eiris said. "Out of the 27 rating criteria applied to tobacco sector company analysis, three criteria have been set to zero: respect for human rights standards, and prevention of violations, management ...

New Forests expands on forestry sector's role in investment, bio-economy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2017  |  NEWS
... New Mexico as part of its forest-carbon investments on more than 445,000 acres of forests in the United States. "As a company, we've always had a strong interest in the whole linkage between the forestry sector and action on climate change," said David ...

Australasian Investor Relations Association developing ESG engagement guide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2017  |  NEWS
... the broader list of companies, understand that it doesn't matter if you've got few resources, or if you're a small cap company, there are some ESG issues that are relevant to you. Some say this, that and the other is not relevant to us, and we can't ...

Majority of Australian participants want mandatory sustainability reporting: ACCSR survey

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2017  |  NEWS
... organisations are reporting that they are moving past the initial stage of studying the SDGs and mapping them against their company strategies, and moving towards using the SDGs as a source of inspiration and future planning, Black said. In the survey ...