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Australian companies awarded gold in sustainability yearbook

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... Management were all awarded gold standard in The Sustainability Yearbook, a ranking that recognizes the top-performing company within each industry sector, and companies whose sores are within 1% of their sector leader's score. A total of 67 companies ...

PRI work stream to address systemic sustainability barriers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... will ask signatories to assess the potential targets for validity and appetite to address them. The six areas include : Company short-termism and overall market returns - to explore whether companies behave in ways that depress long-term investment returns ...

Net Balance certified as a B Corporation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
Consultancy Net Balance has been certified as a B Corporation, an international process that assesses a company's impact against a set of social and environmental performance standards. B Corp status is awarded by US-based non-profit B Lab, which evaluates ...

ANZ discloses ESG metrics in 2012 shareholder review

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... human rights statement, and increasing their lending to lower carbon emission power generation by 15-20% by 2020. The company also noted that they had evaluated their pilot revised environmental management system and expanded it to cover two material ...

Monitoring impact investing: the practitioner's perspective

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... their profit) and this is a critical part of our process. Next thing is the financial analysis and an understanding of the company, its governance and the market it operates in. This process is as robust as you would have in a (main stream) bank." Aiding ...

Charter Hall publishes first sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... after tax of AU$16.7m for the 2011-2012 financial year, with operating earnings after specific items of AU$54.8m. The company reported reweighting its portfolio to predominately Australian-managed properties, selling AU$1.7bn in offshore assets during ...

John Colvin elected chair of international directors network

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
John Colvin, chief executive and managing director of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD), has been elected chairman of the new Global Network of Director Institutes (GNDI). GNDI is an international partnership of nine corporate director ...

A view on Woolworths' corporate responsibility report

JOSH DOWSE  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... so to the detail to find out how Woolworths handles its own size. Again, I stress my view that Woolworths is a valued company that is - with one obvious exception -responsibly run. If the things I mention grate, it is because how they're presented in ...

Low Carbon Australia and CEFC to merge for 2013 launch

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... proceeds as planned, LCAL's portfolio will facilitate building the CEFC's investment pipeline. LCAL is an independent company established in 2010 by the Australian government and manages an AU$84.6m investment fund which provides finance to improve energy ...

Mercer study to investigate shareholder loyalty rewards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... part of the chain," said Helga Birgden, head of responsible investment, Asia-Pacific at Mercer. "We're focusing at the company and shareholder relationship. However, asset owners should care because research shows that this type of short term quarterly ...