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Corporate governance: moving to "owner relations" model

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... management is managing those risks? They want to talk to them about board composition, and how they are future-proofing the company? Shareholders and share owners have a very different perspective, and they're both valid and they're both legitimate." ...

KPMG: top global miners make $1.2bn in social investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... assessing if the projects are achieving what they want them to achieve." Of the 10 companies KPMG surveyed for the study, one company reported quantified outcomes and four companies published a detailed social investment strategy. Only one of the 10 ...

SEFA finances three social enterprise projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... SEFA has allocated "over AU$500,000" to each of the three projects, said Ben Gales, SEFA CEO. MiHaven is a construction company that trains "indigenous people to build affordable but attractive and durable cyclone rated housing and providing the systems ...

AXA IM launches ESG SmartBeta fund in Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... the ESG SmartBeta strategy, AXA Rosenberg uses AXA IM's responsible investment team's summary ESG score, which ranks a company from 1 to 10 on their performance across key ESG indicators, and overlays it into the SmartBeta strategy. The AXA Rosenberg ...

KPMG proposes framework to analyse externalities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... environmental and economic risks impacting organisations' financial viability," Woo said. "Core to this is a recognition that a company should articulate how it creates value, how it is managing and minimising value destruction etc. There are of course ...

AMP Capital reviews corporate governance activities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... strong focus on building confidence among investors, ensuring accountability and transparency between shareholders and company management. AMP Capital pointed to the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia as examples where institutional investors ...

DJSI 2014 review names ASX companies industry leaders

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... analysis. This type of data and external perspective provides a layer of accountability and acts as a good gauge of whether a company's policies, processes and commitments are translating into performance."

AMP Capital invests in Alterra Power Corporation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... Capital's Infrastructure Debt Fund II has invested more than C$100m in Alterra Power Corporation, a global renewable energy company headquartered in British Columbia. AMP Capital has structured a C$110 million subordinated loan facility for Alterra ...

Sustainalytics hires Gary Hewitt

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... social and governance (ESG) research solutions. "The scope of corporate governance practices and behaviors impacting a company's long-term ability to create shareholder value continues to expand," Hewitt said. "This is an exciting time in the field of ...

JBWere: private ancillary funds increase in size, distributions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... Knowles noted. "The other area where you see people having a growth allocation is where people bring in stocks from a company where they've been successfully involved with it," he said. "They donate that stock to the PAF rather than cash. That tends ...