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Forthcoming GRESB report to benchmark RE environmental, social performance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... and sustainability practices in the real estate sector. For institutional investors, it's quite common to screen equity on ESG factors, and for real estate, especially the listed sector, there's information about governance, but beyond that, the E[nvironmental] ...

FSC, ACSI release ESG reporting guide for ASX companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
The Financial Services Council (FSC) and the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) have launched their ESG Reporting Guide for Australian Companies, a framework for assisting companies in identifying and reporting their ESG risks. FSC ...

Imbalances, sustainability and their impact on investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
Although sustainability/ESG considerations and sovereign defaults are not, at first pass, connected to each other, when Tim Hodgson, senior investment consultant and head of Towers Watson's Thinking Ahead Group talks about both, the word "imbalances" ...

Assistance will "significantly reduce" effects of carbon tax on industry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... of investors to quantify levels of company assistance and earnings impacts," said Michael Salvatico, Vice President at MSCI ESG Research in Sydney. Under the legislation proposed by the Gillard government, a carbon tax scheme would start on 1 July 2012 ...

Sustainability a key theme for investor awareness

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... Australian institutional investors. He will speak with The Sustainability Report during that visit. See Also: Integrating ESG an evolution for institutional investors

Social risk: the impact on the Australian cattle industry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... experience of the cattle industry serve as a stark example that companies and investors must be aware of the social component to ESG analysis for risk and return, because failing to appreciate the impact of social risk may result in unexpected and unwanted ...

ACSI releases study on ASX200 ESG reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
When it comes to ASX200 companies and their ESG reporting, companies seem to be falling into the mould of the little girl with a little curl in the middle of her forehead in the much-recited children's poem -where the leading companies are good and ...

Solaris Investment Management appoint ESG analyst

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
Solaris Investment Management, an AU$4bn retail and institutional fund manager, has appointed Lisa Domagala as ESG specialist to the investment team. Domagala has worked with the fund since March 2010 as an ESG consultant, and her permanent appointment ...

Investor Profile: Victorian Funds Management Corporation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... Australian Council of Superannuation Investors. She speaks with The Sustainability Report about her remit and VFMC's view of ESG and sustainable investment practices. Q: Can you describe your remit at VFMC? Ros McKay, VFMC governance manager RM: I am ...

AustralianSuper hires investment governance manager

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... which will focus on activities that will enhance or protect the value of the investment portfolio," said Kelly Christodoulou, ESG investment manager at AustralianSuper. "The appointment supports the fund's belief that better governance leads to better ...