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Mutuals, co-ops have turnover of $104 billion: BCCM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... and almost a quarter of Australia's automotive parts are purchased by the co-operative sector. Australia's largest dairy company is a co-operative. The role of co-operatives and mutuals in a sustainable economy is starting to become part of mainstream ...

Wesfarmers: lower CO2, more supply chain transparency

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... progress via an online publication. This represents a new approach to reporting, based on materiality of issues to the company's overall sustainability, said Richard Goyder, Wesfarmers managing director. In the 2014 financial year, Wesfarmers reduced ...

Boards more diverse, but ACSI calls for more "skin in the game"

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
More than 11% of ASX200 non-executive board positions are held by directors who own no shares in the company, which the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) says goes counter to ACSI's expectation that directors will have "skin in the ...

Companies inconsistent in approach to deforestation risks: CDP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... Katie McCoy, head of forests at CDP. "There is a lot of discussion about reducing deforestation at the government and the company level. There is a business case for reducing deforestation. But what we're measuring on our data that we've collected from ...

Investors apply ethical screens to cash management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... instruments, said managing director Michael Walsh. UCA Funds Management's investment policy states that in order for a company to be excluded, the company must be "directly and materially involved" in a business that they exclude, Walsh said. "The way ...

Role for custodian in ESG data analytics: BNP Paribas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... changing enormously - you have the demographic shift where people are joining the consumer class, and that puts pressures on company practices, whether it's producing clothing in Bangladesh or producing cars in china. There are a billion or more people ...

Panel discusses fossil fuel divestment for super funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... superannuation fund said. The threshold for the "high carbon sensitive" negative screen has been set at a minimum of one third of company revenue, LGS said. This will result in divestment of approximately AU$25 million in companies involved in the manufacture ...

bankmecu MD discusses integrated reporting implementation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... Walsh, bankmecu managing director Walsh participated from bankmecu's position as a member of the IIRC's pilot program and company that uses IR for reporting purposes and as a member of the Global Alliance for Banking on Values (GABV), he said. "I drew ...

Interest in green, social bonds continuing: JPMorgan Chase

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... still constitute the majority of issuance. Ceci pointed to a 20-year IFC green bond purchased by a Peruvian insurance company, denominated in Peruvian soles, as one example.

Governance Institute of Australia questions shareholder primacy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... government has a role to play here with social policy." There is nothing in corporations law that explicitly prohibits company directors from considering wider stakeholder concerns, Black noted. "What's clear to me right now is that corporations law ...