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Drive to push corporate communication of ESG materiality

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
Companies need to develop and implement new strategies to uncover and communicate how environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors are material to business performance, and investors need to ask companies questions on material ESG factors during ...

Australian companies awarded gold in sustainability yearbook

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... investment specialist then scores each company on up to 120 financially material economic, environmental, social, and governance criteria, industry-specific and with a focus to long-term value creation. The yearbook is in its tenth year, and RobecoSAM ...

PRI work stream to address systemic sustainability barriers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... a new work stream that will analyse how systemic barriers are impeding the integration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into investment decision and what actions actors - including asset owners and investment managers - can take ...

VicSuper integrates governance risk into bond portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... international fixed income portfolio is consistent with the fund's commitment to integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into its investment process. "When we look at ESG, we look at it purely in an integrated sense," Walsh said. ...

ESG factors impact on private equity valuation, dealmaking

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
Poor performance on environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors can reduce valuations of potential private equity deals or cause potential buyers to walk away from an acquisition, according to research from the United Nations-backed Principles ...

Developing methods for monitoring impact investment returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... come up with a way of measuring the impact of ESG in client portfolios in terms of their environmental, social and governance characteristics by creating ESG benchmark portfolios, extending existing social and environmental return methodologies and how ...

Monitoring impact investing: the practitioner's perspective

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... Australia (SEFA). "The review takes place once a year or twice a year, when you review your clients, you talk about governance and financial analysis as well as management, the balance sheet, the security - all the things you do when you review a loan. ...

ASrIA: US$74bn in sustainable investment assets in Asia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... listed equities. Some Asian market exchanges have increased requirements for disclosure of environmental, social and governance (ESG) non-financial information, including Hong Kong, Malaysia and Thailand, but the report notes that Asian regional bond ...

Charter Hall publishes first sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... corporate responsibility and sustainability (CR&S) working group and increased embedding of environmental, social and governance issues in their businesses objectives in its first sustainability report. Charter Hall manages 184 properties for wholesale ...

John Colvin elected chair of international directors network

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... in December 2012. GNDI members will collaborate in areas including exploring issues with global impacts on corporate governance, developing and promoting leading practices that "that enhance the ability of corporate directors to ensure long-term, sustainable ...