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Paper guides investors to ESG investment integration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... portfolios, they also indirectly own the externalities generated by companies, which may offset the portfolio return in future." With all that in mind, the paper suggests four approaches to integrating ESG. In the tilting approach, investors either sell ...

Interview: Anthea McIntyre, Australian Institute of Company Directors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... report by Catalyst a few years later also suggested that the number of women on a company's board positively affects the future of women in its senior management. The report found a clear and positive correlation between the percentage of women board ...

Imbalances, sustainability and their impact on investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... managing for negative externalities. To me, it's a belief thing. But then the entirety of investment is a belief thing because future returns are uncertain. It's as if some clients are waiting for proof that there is as positive correlation between ESG ...

Social risk: the impact on the Australian cattle industry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... stakeholders and the more distant general public has long been recognised and enunciated most recently in "Roadmap for the Future" strategy document prepared in 2010," Stockwell said. "At present, while the industry is in crisis management and still ...

ANZ files report for United Nations Global Compact

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... improve performance. ANZ bank has been certified carbon neutral by Low Carbon Australia. The bank also outlined progress and future actions on labour, pointing to materials within the human rights policy and commitments to "ensure fair and safe working ...

Carbon tax regime to affect liability for joint ventures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... permits," he said. "Trading will commence largely at the end of the fixed price phase but there will be some trading in future vintage permits before that and that will serve to set a forward price curve. In the fixed price phase, entities that have ...

ACSI releases study on ASX200 ESG reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... aware of the group's concerns and said that "recalcitrant" companies that give poor disclosures could possibly be named in future reports. "Over the past four years, we have taken an encouragement approach," she said. "ACSI have never taken a name- and-shame ...

Institutional investors back carbon tax scheme

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... Australian companies. "This certainty will assist superannuation funds to manage the savings of working Australians into the future. For too long investors have been left hanging in limbo over regulatory action on climate change," said ACSI CEO Ann Byrne. ...

Investor Profile: Victorian Funds Management Corporation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... started coming back in. it's another issue that's going to play out over time. Q: What issues are you looking at to the future? RM: In addition to our review of our external managers including our participation with the GRESB a lot of what I do in my ...

ICMM releases climate change policy paper

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... term price on greenhouse gas emissions 2. apply climate change related revenues to manage a transition to a low carbon future 3. facilitate trade competitiveness across sectors 4. seek broad-based application 5. be predictable and gradual 6. be simple ...