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AXA IM develops impact investing fund of funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... professionalisation of the sector." AXA IM outlined its new strategy in impact investing as part of its responsible investment annual report for activities during 2013. The funds manager's volume of responsible investment assets grew by 18% in 2012 ...

European Parliament adopts standards for ESG disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014  |  NEWS
The European Parliament has adopted a measure requiring large European companies to disclose environmental, social and governance information as part of their annual reporting. Internal Market and Services Commissioner Michel Barnier Companies with ...

ASX reports on progress towards gender diversity targets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... will now have much greater flexibility to make their governance disclosures on their website rather than in their annual report, which should also encourage greater disclosure. The flexibility of 'if not why not' reporting remains for those entities ...

NAB, bankmecu, Stockland on Integrated Reporting framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... longer history of presenting sustainability reports, and trying to present financial and non-financial data in one annual report, but found that using the Integrated Reporting model precipitated a shift in the company thinking around integrated strategies. ...

CDP to broaden, enhance cities program with Bloomberg grant

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
Bloomberg Philanthropies has awarded CDP a three-year, US$4.1 million grant to expand and enhance the CDP's reporting platform and technical support for city governments. The grant is a broadening of CDP's relationship with its "long-standing partner" ...

More Australian companies report corporate responsibility

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... found that of the 82% of Australian companies that report, 51% produce stand alone reports, 29% report only in the annual report - including 17 of the 25 new reporters since the last survey - and 2% report on their company website only. The Global Reporting ...

NZ Super Fund invests in wind turbine developer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... Authority (ADIA). The three funds signed a memorandum of understanding in late 2012, according to NZ Super's 2012/2013 annual report. "[T]he intention is to find opportunities where our long investment horizon can be valuable to allow companies to grow ...

AMP Capital identifies ESG risks to Australian retailers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
The way that retailers manage their environmental, social and governance (ESG) exposures can be a proxy for their management quality, according to research from AMP Capital Investors. Mans Carlsson-Sweeny, AMP Capital There are fewer links between individual ...

NAB sets five-year corporate responsibility commitments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... they will play out and how they will impact our business and in the broader economy." This is the fourth integrated annual report that NAB has produced. NAB is one of three Australian businesses participating in the International Integrated Reporting ...

bankmecu: integrated reporting develops integrated thinking

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
bankmecu's corporate reporting and annual general meetings have become more integrated and forward looking as a result of the bank's use of the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC)'s draft guidelines to produce integrated annual reports ...