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Sustainability reports a driver of action and engagement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
Sustainability reports provide external parties such as investors the opportunity to assess a company's performance to long term goals, and provides stakeholders with an opportunity to engage with the process of achieving sustainable targets, said panellists ...

ESG disclosures relevant to investors' decision-making

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... these sources of information will help sustainability considerations become embedded into investors' assessments of a company's long-term value. The report highlights the importance of integrated reporting, but it is important to remember that companies ...

Emerging listed miners catching up on corporate governance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... actions around environmental, social and governance issues. "These companies are in the ASX300 for the first time, and one company didn't even know what a proxy adviser was," she said. "They must understand what these firms are expecting, and what the ...

Investors alert to possible Metcash poker machine move

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
With retailer Woolworths Limited facing a November extraordinary general meeting (EGM) over a move to change the company's constitution to limit the poker machines they own to AU$1 maximum bets, another distributor, Metcash, faced media allegations ...

IIRC appoints Peter Bakker deputy chair

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC). Bakker has previously served as CEO of TNT NV, the Netherlands-based holding company of TNT Express and Royal TNT Post (formerly TPG Post). Under his tenure, which ended in June 2011, the company "was ...

Shareholders to face activist lobbying on Woolworths vote

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... retailer Woolworths Limited will be asked at a November extraordinary general meeting (EGM) to vote on a motion demanding the company limit the poker machines they own to AU$1 bets. GetUp, the activist group behind the campaign to curb gambling, will ...

Transparency International publishes anti-corruption report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... most transparent, ranked on how the companies are structured and the amount of financial information provided for each company in which they operate. Norway's Statoil was top rated,with a score of 8.3. Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton came in ranked in second ...

IIRC releases outline to integrated reporting framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... "Integrated Reporting is a market- led initiative, driven by business and investor needs to gain greater insights into how a company's strategy creates and preserves value over the short, medium and long term," said Paul Druckman, IIRC chief executive ...

Solomon Islands implement EITI payment disclosure standard

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... in resource-rich countries and those countries governance structures through the full publication and verification of company payments and government revenues from oil, gas, and mining. The Solomon Islands has mineral and energy resources, with potential ...

Using water accounting to measure, manage financial risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... Australian National University and co-editor of the book. "If there are elements of water risk at, for example, a mining company or a pulp and paper manufacturer, a chemical manufacturer, or a water authority, general purpose water accounting under the ...