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IIRC releases Competence Matrix for IR training

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... believe practitioners should focus on process alone," said Begona Morales Blanco-Steger, of the Madrid-based technology company, Indra Sistemas, who is a member of the IIRC's training advisory group. "The links that IR requires to strategy and its scope ...

ESG concerns a challenge for mining projects: MSCI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... are layers of ESG risks to these projects, with interlocking impacts and varying levels of intensity depending on the company and the fossil fuel asset in question Vernon noted. As a general observation, Vernon said that there is a high level of community ...

Court back Commonwealth Bank in ACCR case

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... legal right to put such resolutions on the AGM. "Today's decision says that, in Australia, shareholders - the owners of a company - can only comment on the behaviour of their company by attempting to change the company's constitution." said Caroline ...

FTSE Russell launches All-World ex Coal indexes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... arise from various forms of coal mining as stated by the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) System or based on the company's most recent published annual report and accounts. "Later this year, senior politicians and businesspeople will attend the ...

ACCR to lodge carbon disclosure resolutions for AGL AGM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR) is lodging resolutions for AGL's annual general meeting (AGM) demanding the company set a quantitative target for annual reductions on emissions from power generation activities, among other concerns. ACCR will ...

Super boards can add value with ESG focus: BNP Paribas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... different to what's going on in general - what it is to be a good corporate governance body, whether it's a board of a listed company or a not-for-profit." However, only 11% of respondents believed that they will have international directors on their ...

Investors consider corporate pay links to climate change goals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... stock." Several diversified mining companies are demonstrating that they are considering climate change questions at a company level, and building that into executives' remit, noted Duncan Paterson, CEO of research provider CAER. "We've been researching ...

ACSI calls for better ASX disclosure of mental health and safety

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... traditional financial reporting, can undermine effective communication of these longer-term measures of business success by company boards to their owners," said Louise Davidson, ACSI chief executive. "ACSI looks forward to a significant improvement ...

Inflection Point Capital Management launches Zero Carbon

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... buy a new air plane fleet where the energy efficiency will be better than the old planes, you can make a guess that a company will have a lower carbon footprint. You're trying to capture that." LFIP is in the process of developing the ZC portfolio, but ...

Corporate Human Rights Benchmark issues draft indicators

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... information, a board umbrella of terms. "From the point of view of an analyst trying to pin down a reasonable assessment of the company, it's important that the indicators be tightly defined," Paterson said. "It's more practical from that point of view ...