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Mercer ratings demonstrate challenge of integrating ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
Mercer only gave 9% of more than 5,000 environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment strategies in their database their highest ratings because their evaluation is based on how strategies integrate ESG into the active construction of portfolio ...

LGS select MSCI for ESG and carbon research, monitoring

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... generating long-term risk-controlled investment returns, while also aligning ourselves with our members' environmental and social concerns," said Peter Lambert, CEO at LGS. "The implementation of the new carbon emissions and ESG reporting capability ...

Corporate Social Responsibility as driver of innovation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) can be a vehicle for innovation and not just risk mitigation, and the challenge for CSR practitioners is to find the areas where businesses can use social needs as a source of profit generation. The Australian Centre ...

Managing regulatory impacts priority for CSR practitioners

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs are predominately driven by the view that its value is derived from enhancing corporate reputation, reducing risk and facilitating regulatory compliance, according to the Australian Centre for Corporate ...

Mercer gives top rating to 9% of ESG strategies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
Only 9% of more than 5,000 investment strategies in Mercer database achieve the highest ratings on environmental, social and governance (ESG) ratings. Mercer has rated strategies within its Global Investment Manager Database (GIMD) for ESG since 2008 ...

ASX50 companies slow to adopt integrated reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... Those aspects have been taking on board by the financial community, but they need to look broader, particularly to the social/community aspect of sustainability." Integrated reporting discloses how environmental, social and governance (ESG) matters impact ...

Ken Henry to speak at ACCSR annual conference

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
Former Treasury Secretary Ken Henry will give a keynote address at the Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ACCSR)'s fifth annual conference on the state of corporate social responsible in Australia. Henry, who is also a non-executive ...

Finsia: ESG consistent with superannuation fiduciary duties

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
Integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into investment processes is "entirely consistent" with the fiduciary duties of superannuation trustees, the Financial Services Institute of Australasia (Finsia) said in a newly published ...

MSCI launches ESG ratings for sovereign bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... MSCI has launched a sovereign ratings tool designed to identify a country's exposure to and management of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risk factors. MSCI ESG Sovereign Ratings provide an overall sustainability assessment of 90 countries ...

Institutional investors put climate change into risk budget

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... AustralianSuper joined the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB), an initiative to assess the environmental and social performance of public and private property investments." For their infrastructure investments, AustralianSuper is working ...