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Integrated reporting to provide analysis, innovation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... integrated reporting, which combines financial information with non-financial information such as environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors, could provide investors with information that will assist them in evaluating future cash flows. "The ...

Voluntary sustainability disclosures carry legal weight

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
Companies making voluntary disclosures of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues must ensure that any statements can be backed up by data and they must be aware that disclosures to reporting frameworks such as the Carbon Disclosure Project ...

Corporate sustainability a vehicle for value creation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... statement of values, and the integrated reporting framework could assist companies in seeing environmental, social and governance (ESG) as central to strategy, according to Jonathon Hanks, a South African sustainability expert. "The thing is that many ...

Five Oceans AM to run Skandia Global Equity Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... of derivative and hedging strategies, and the research Five Oceans undertakes to integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) into their investment selection process, said Adam Smears, head of investment research and portfolio manager at SIG ...

UNPRI writes letter to UNGC leaders and laggards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... have contacted 118 UN Global Compact (UNGC) companies on the issue of increased reporting on environmental, social and governance activities. The investors are all UNPRI signatories and wrote the 118 companies to either express support for their advanced ...

AMP Capital, VFMC publish 2011 proxy voting record

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... Capital and the Victorian Funds Management Corporation (VMFC) to cast proxy votes against resolutions during 2011. Governance managers at both institutions also cited concerns over share placements, board composition and corporate constitution amendments ...

WOB: ASX200 companies not meeting gender diversity standards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... its WOB Traffic Light Index to evaluate how they are responding to the revised ASX Principle 3 of the ASX Corporate Governance Principles and Recommendations. WOB then rated the companies on a traffic light system - a red light, or 1, meaning the company ...

CDP writes companies asking for carbon management and cuts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... banks, and investments on the part of asset managers and pension funds, increasing use of environmental, social and governance data in decision-making and, for companies in the European Union, reducing exposure to potential increases in the price of ...

Mercer ratings demonstrate challenge of integrating ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
Mercer only gave 9% of more than 5,000 environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment strategies in their database their highest ratings because their evaluation is based on how strategies integrate ESG into the active construction of portfolio ...

Corporate Social Responsibility as driver of innovation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... at how corporates engage with Indigenous communities. Professor Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh, director of the Centre for Governance and Public Policy's Program on Indigenous and Environment Governance and Capacity at Griffith University, said that in particularly ...