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UN Global Compact, GRI most cited CSR instruments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... and Swedish sample companies refer to internationally recognised CSR instruments more often than the average EU sample company," the survey said. "Dutch, French and Italian companies were about average for the sample, and Czech, German, Polish and UK ...

CEC to partner with American Council on Renewable Energy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... US delegation representatives include Citigroup, Denham Capital, Deutsche Bank, First Solar, IBM, Lockheed Martin, S&C Company, Recurrent, Sungevity, SolarReserve, Sunpower, and Skadden Arps. "Baker & McKenzie is very pleased to assist in the formal ...

Mercer: use responsible investment to reduce return leakage

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... will never happen?" There are three dimensions investors can examine to reduce these leakages - the investment chain, the company level and the systems level. In the investment chain, Mercer proposed reducing turnover in portfolios in favour of higher ...

ACSI criticises slow pace of women appointed to ASX boards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... 2014. Currently, 66% of boards have failed to reach that standard requirement. According to the ACSI audit, the median company board is made up of 6 men and 1 woman. Furthermore, only 4% (8) of board chairs are women and 4% (8) of CEOs are women There ...

Dalton Nicol Reid: using ESG to find sustainable earnings

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... industry they operate in, the balance sheet and also ESG characteristics. We're trying to identifying the sustainability of a company's earnings. For our SRI product in particular, we use the CAER database and we run a number of questions across the ...

Net Balance: financial, shared value performance related

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... Business School - reviewed five years of sustainability performance data on 287 ASX listed companies. "A CSV score for each company was derived by rating a subset of 26 variables that could be described as best-fit proxies for CSV-type behaviour, aligned ...

GRI and IIRC sign agreement for closer cooperation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... stakeholders. "Integrated Reporting is a powerful lever to mainstream sustainability disclosure where it relates to a company's ability to create and sustain value," Ligteringen said. "Investors are increasingly recognizing that the value of an organization ...

AMP Capital notes increased engagement, board diversity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... Under the two-strikes rule, shareholders in Australian publicly listed companies have the right to remove directors if a company's remuneration report has received a 'no' vote of 25% or more at two consecutive annual general meetings under the legislation. ...

MSCI: using ESG ratings can improve portfolio returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... that they're more familiar.... I've always thought that ESG ratings are providing information about the materiality of a company, the quality of its operations that's not captured in traditional analysis." The paper was written by Zoltan Nagy, Doug Cogan ...

LGS buys into IFC green bond issue

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... and making sure we know where the funds are going." Hartnett said. Some of the other participants in the bond include 3M Company, Blackrock, the California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS), Calvert Investments, Ellomay Capital, Fjarde AP-fonden ...