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PUMA's environmental P&L reporting: a model for Australia?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... regime to support this sort of reporting should companies choose to calculate and disclose the economic costs or benefits of ESG factors, Magarey said. "There's no reason why we couldn't do this and apply them the same way Puma is doing," she said. "There's ...

Colonial First State Global Asset Management reports on responsible investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... First State Global Asset Management (CFSGAM) has urged the financial services industry to put greater emphasis on pricing ESG issues into investment decisions while releasing a report into their own 2010 responsible investment decisions. Amanda McCluskey ...

Benchmarking superannuation funds' sustainability performance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... accepted metrics to benchmark companies' sustainability performances with the ultimate goal of using the data to mitigate ESG risks and push for improved management of those factors by companies. But even as the pressure rises on companies to disclose ...

Mercer: providing education and intervention on ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
Bringing ESG risk/reward considerations to institutional investors such as superannuation funds is a matter of "intervention" and education for investment consultant Mercer, which has a specialist ESG team that produces research and develops strategies ...

MSCI launches 25 new ESG indices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
MSCI has rolled out 25 new ESG indices, including indices that exclude holdings in manufacturers of controversial weapons and indices built around socially responsible investments. The new indices include 11 regional and country-level specific indices. ...

The impact of universal owners on sustainable investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... own a slice of country's economy and market through their portfolios are exposed to environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors that might impact long-term value, but they have the ability to use that economic and financial clout to influence ...

MSCI launches ESG platform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
MSCI has launched MSCI ESG Manager, a platform to assist asset managers and owners with managing research, analysis and compliance tasks across a range of ESG factors. MSCI is also introducing MSCI ESG Impact Monitor, a product that allows investors ...

ICMM releases climate change policy paper

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... effective 7. support low-emission base-load generation technology development. See Also: Transparency improving around miners' ESG reporting

International Integrated Reporting Committee seeks pilot test participants

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... 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 an organization's strategy, governance and ...

Integrating ESG to enhance quantitative-style investment analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... 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 financial analytics to create an integrated framework ...