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Miners, stakeholders agree to actions in Upper Hunter Valley

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... issues - the organisation of a water study of the region to understand aquifers and surface water, which will take existing data and fill in the gaps of information; the development of independent and transparent water assessment of mining projects to ...

Sustainability measures decline in information technology

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... indices for five areas in ICT sustainability - equipment lifecycle procurement and disposal, end user computing, enterprise and data centre, IT as a low-carbon enabler and metrics. The methodology measured attitude, policy, practice and technology and ...

ESG analysis now part of mainstream investment management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... available," said Peter Lunt, executive manager - investment at superannuation fund VicSuper. "On the social side, there is less data and less comparable data and it is less quantifiable.... We ask our managers how or if the integrate social and the answers ...

Carbon price an "entry point" for sustainability discussion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... emissions (CO2 equivalent) for the fiscal year 2010-11 for a corporation are required to register with the Greenhouse and Energy Data Officer, Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency and report on those emissions annually. Each year, corporations ...

Investor Profile: Local Government Super

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... We've been able to lower our vacancy rates, and they are now extremely low. It's now just getting a number of years' worth of data to show to the analysts / valuers that these things actually have a link to profitability, which is why we've been involved ...

ASX100 CEO pay increases faster than stock value

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... AU$16.158m. Westfield CEO Frank Lowy had the second highest pay in 2010, with AU$15.965m. This year, ACSI's study for 2010 includes data on realised pay - the equity actually vested to CEOs as opposed to the amortised estimated value required under accounting ...

Australian property funds top GRESB list

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... estate sector can structurally reduce energy consumption," said Nils Kok, executive director of the GRESB Foundation. "The data shows that Australian fund managers in the commercial property sector have made big strides towards full integration of environmental ...

Interview: Anthea McIntyre, Australian Institute of Company Directors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
The Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) last week launched Tomorrow's boards: Creating balanced and effective boards, a book that details the current composition of Australia's boards, selection practices and the advantages inherent in ...

Women make strides in recent board appointments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... Directors. However, overall, women only make up 12.7% of directors on ASX200 listed companies. The Institute released this data as it launched its new book, Tomorrow's boards: Creating balanced and effective boards, which investigates boards, their selection ...

FSC, ACSI release ESG reporting guide for ASX companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... a clear framework for how companies should report ESG risks and will facilitate greater consistency and comparability of data across different companies and sectors." The reporting guide defines both the reporting parameters and the ESG issues that investors ...