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Combining quality measures with ESG can yield higher returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... Quality Score (NTQS) with third-party ESG rankings to generate model equity portfolios that "gaug[e]the efficacy of a company's business model along numerous quantifiable dimensions such as earnings patterns, cash flow, capital structure, and capital ...

Investors say non-financials matter in investment decisions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... information - positive and negative - in a way that integrates the non-financial information into the reporting about company results and strategy. "Transparency is key - and transparency in reporting positive and negative information is key," Bell said. ...

IIRC, GISR agree to collaborate on integrated standards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... co-chair. "Integrated Reporting is building a foundation for disclosures aligned with multiple capitals that will help company and credit ratings more accurately assess long-term performance. Together, IR and GISR will bring to financial markets a new ...

ASX includes ESG language in corporate governance guidance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... in scope, in that while bot the ASX and ASIC guidance apply to listed entities, not everything listed on the ASX is a company, so it will catch a few more." George notes that the ASX guidance will also apply across the universe of more than 2,000 entities ...

ESG integration into quantitative investment management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... SSgA said. "In an Australian context, if you have individual names that could constitute 5-10% of an index, screening any company on a single factor - whether that factor is quality, growth or ESG, can introduce an enormous amount of risk into a portfolio. ...

PRI finds limited disclosure of fracking activity, impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... governance and risk management, water quality and use, greenhouse gas emissions and community relations. Information on company disclosure practices were collected from publicly available sources, including annual and sustainability reports, regulatory ...

Teachers Mutual Bank, NAB, Westpac top "most ethical" list

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... bank said. Ethisphere Institute selects companies based on its proprietary rating system, the Ethics Quotient (EQ). A company is rated on its ethics and compliance program (25%), its reputation, leadership and innovation (20%), its governance (10%) ...

CEFC provides $20m loan facility to Carnegie Wave Energy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... Defence at Garden Island in Western Australia. It will be the first grid connected array globally and the first time any company has created a wave farm with multiple wave energy converters to produce electricity and fresh water, CEFC said. The CEFC ...

CDP, FirstCarbon Solutions sign expanded partnership

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... three-year agreement. FCS has been a CDP scoring partner since 2011, and CDP said that since 2011, they had scored "over 6,400 company disclosures and provided guidance to help organisations track and improve environmental performance." FCS is CDP's ...

AMP Capital increases focus on corporate succession planning

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... semi-annual corporate governance report. "We look at all sorts of intangible factors when we look at the sustainability of a company's business model and the sustainability of their ability to create returns for investors over the long term," Halliday ...