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Colonial First State GAM publishes global stewardship code

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFSGAM) have published a set of Global Stewardship Principles for its funds management business. Pablo Berrutti,head of responsible investment Asia Pacific, CFSGAM The Global Stewardship Principles are compliant ...

bankmecu: integrated reporting develops integrated thinking

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
bankmecu's corporate reporting and annual general meetings have become more integrated and forward looking as a result of the bank's use of the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC)'s draft guidelines to produce integrated annual reports ...

CBA questioned over carbon emissions calculations

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... -e) labeled "reallocation of external tenants' electricity". Commonwealth conducted an Energy Efficiency Opportunity (EEO) audit and found that the bank might have been capturing the emissions of third-party tenants, which was confirmed when the bank ...

Inalytics, PIRC find corporate governance, share price link

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
Analysis from Inalytics and PIRC, an independent governance research and shareholder voting adviser, has demonstrated that share prices of listed companies with high governance risk performed poorly over time, whereas the share price of listed companies ...

GRI names Christianna Wood chairman of board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
Christianna Wood has been named the new chairman of the Global Reporting Initiative board, and six directors have been named to the board. Wood takes over from outgoing GRI Chairman Herman Mulder. She is a member of the board of the International Integrated ...

Sedex notes increasing demand for ethical procurement data

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... their own tools to look at supply chain and responsible charges." Sedex is a data collection platform, and does not perform audit functions on the companies that provide sustainability data. The onus on evaluating the sustainability and ethical performance ...

Insurer Catlin Group sponsors survey of global coral reefs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... Institute at the University of Queensland. "We're using a whole range of images to count the coral at the bottom - it's an audit of the amount of coral at the barrier reef. We've done probably the biggest survey every done on a reef, there are 150,000 ...

Foresters Community Finance funding for early stage ventures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
Developing social enterprises can access funding between $10,000 -$30,000 through Foresters Community Finance's Early Stage Social Enterprise Fund. The Early Stage Social Enterprise Fund was developed to fit the lending profile of social enterprises ...

Gaps in retailers' labour and human rights policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... area. We think that [companies] need to go and look at what if any policies they have in place now, go through a proper audit processes, and make sure that the results correlate with the systems that they have in place. They need to absolutely know what's ...

IIRC CEO favours market-led adoption of Integrated Reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
The chief executive officer of the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) says market-led adoption of the Integrated Reporting (IR) framework, not mandatory compliance, will lead to better corporate reporting. Paul Druckman, IIRC CEO Paul ...