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Paper guides investors to ESG investment integration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
Institutional investors can integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into their investment approaches in a number of structured fashions, including tilting towards or against ESG factors, taking an active ownership approach, targeted ...

AGL wins three awards for sustainability reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... ACCA reporting awards ceremony. That year, AGL also won the award for best disclosure of environmental, social and governance information at the Australian Investor Relations Association annual awards presentation. "We are incredibly proud of these achievements ...

Interview: Anthea McIntyre, Australian Institute of Company Directors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... listed companies set similar targets as they announce their approach to diversity in accordance with the ASX Corporate Governance Council's new corporate governance guidelines on diversity [which came into effect on 1 January 2011.] Q: How does the book ...

ACSI release governance guidelines

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) has released the fifth edition of its governance guidelines ' A Guide for Superannuation Trustees to monitor listed Australian companies'. The guide, which is updated every second year, includes ...

Women make strides in recent board appointments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... and 2.2% from South Africa, with the remaining 15% from more than 100 other countries. See Also: Board capacity a key governance concern Finsia drafts principles to disclose, address gender divide "Steady but modest" increase in number of women direc ...

Regnan appoint Amanda Wilson managing director

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... institutional investors and fund managers, and said that the firm will continue to embed environmental, social and governance (ESG) into mainstream decision making. "One of our focuses is on carbon, and making sure that the risk exposure to the uncertain ...

Forthcoming GRESB report to benchmark RE environmental, social performance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... common to screen equity on ESG factors, and for real estate, especially the listed sector, there's information about governance, but beyond that, the E[nvironmental] and the S[ocial], there is not a lot of information about those issues. The investors ...

FSC, ACSI release ESG reporting guide for ASX companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... guide also lays out environmental and social issues into four themes, while stating that investors' expectations around governance "have already been comprehensively documented elsewhere" and refers to best practice under the governance heading. Under ...

ACSI CEO elected to PRI Advisory Council

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... Superannuation Investors, has been elected to the Principle for Responsible Investment's Advisory Council, PRI's strategic governance body. Ann Byrne Byrne is one of six candidates to join the board. Two are asset owners -Else Bos, chief executive of ...

Board capacity a key governance concern

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
Institutional investors have flagged the issue of board directors' capacity as a key governance issue. While neither investors, advisory groups, nor the directors believe there should be a hard and fast rule for the number of directorships that can ...