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International Integrated Reporting Committee seeks pilot test participants

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... framework. The IIRC is developing a set of integrated reporting (IR) standards that will link an organization's strategy, governance and financial performance with the ESG context in which it operates. IR's goal is to demonstrate the linkages between ...

Integrating ESG to enhance quantitative-style investment analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
As investors continue to realise that the way companies manage their environmental, social and governance inputs reflect potential risk as well as potential opportunity, ESG factors are being incorporated into traditional quantitative and qualitative ...

PC: carbon price a more efficient means of reducing emissions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
An analysis of nine of Australia's major trading partners by the Productivity Commission concludes that establishing a carbon pricing mechanism is a more efficient means of reducing consumption than other schemes that raise the explicit and implicit ...

Investor Profile: Australian Ethical Investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... broad ESG in the sense that it leads us to avoid certain areas. Some of the ESG players are really just looking at governance issues, and in my view, it becomes a best of sector and not much more than that. We're looking beyond that to say there are ...

CAMAC releases review of executive remuneration governance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
Companies should give a general description of their executive remuneration governance framework, but should be permitted to withhold commercially sensitive information pertaining to performance conditions and should not be required to use accounting ...

Companies investing in sustainable operations showing returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... forecasted. Woolworths, the food and staples retailing company with A$51.7bn in turnover for 2010, has established a governance framework with sustainability in the strategy, from board to executive to "champions" embedded into the retail and logistics ...

Investor Profile: Colonial First State Global Asset Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... mentioned play out in the longer term. In particular for that team, there is a strong focus on best practice corporate governance. That may be anything from fair and appropriate remuneration of executives through to ensuring best quality directors on ...

Finsia drafts principles to disclose, address gender divide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
The Financial Services Institute of Australasia (Finsia) have drafted a set of reporting principles so that financial services companies can benchmark, measure and address the employment gender divide. The draft principles (see below) would establish ...

KPMG: sustainability strategies driven by cost reduction, environment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
More than 60% of companies surveyed in a global KPMG report say they have a strategy for corporate sustainability, with cost reduction a key rationale and a primary focus on the environmental side, particularly on resource and energy efficiency. According ...

GRI developing oil and gas sector reporting guidance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... and gas sector, to be used by organizations for measuring and reporting on the economic, environmental, social, and governance dimensions of their activities, products, and services. The oil and gas sector guidelines are a version of the current G3 guidelines ...