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ESG concerns a challenge for mining projects: MSCI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... said. "With mining companies, one of the biggest ones that I can see, which is something you're seeing happening abroad, is labour unrest within companies where they have to freeze projects and therefore lay off workers. As an industry as a whole, when ...

Looking ahead to sustainability trends in 2015

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... like, how do you know what's going on down your supply chain? You have to have a thematic approach to eliminating the worst labour practices in the supply chain, you are approaching that with a holistic view. That's what directors of major companies ...

Northern Trust to open asset management in Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... done well, and it is also appropriate timing to take a stronger view of the asset management business as well." Last year Labour Union Co-operative Retirement Fund (LUCRF) appointed Northern Trust Asset Management's international business to manage an ...

Diversity Council Australia urges employer action in 2015

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... Future Proofing Your Business in the Asian Century. The report finds that Asian-Australians represent 9.3% of the Australian labour force, but only 4.9% are in senior executive levels, a situation that the DCA calls the "bamboo ceiling." There is a business ...

SuperMIND calculates costs of mental illness, suicide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
Claims related to suicide cost 13 industry superannuation fund and their insurers more than AU$200 million between 2007-2011,according to SuperFriend, a not-for-profit mental health foundation. Shane Fielding, principal of group risk at IFS Insurance ...

KPMG proposes framework to analyse externalities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... as shadow carbon pricing integrated into long-term revenue and cost models and issues such as community dissatisfaction, labour relations and environmental pollution "broadly referenced" in companies' sustainability or enterprise risk management systems ...

DJSI 2014 review names ASX companies industry leaders

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... financial exclusion, financial stability and systemic risk, customer relationship management, risk and crisis management, labour practice indicators and human rights, climate strategy, supply chain management, brand management, anti-crime policy and ...

Diversity Council Australia measures the bamboo ceiling

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... Future Proofing Your Business in the Asian Century. The report finds that Asian-Australians represent 9.3% of the Australian labour force, but only 4.9% are in senior executive levels, a situation that the report's authors call the bamboo ceiling. "There ...

Learning from Europe's example in social investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... education or health were retained within the community as workers did not migrate. In the 21 st century, however, where labour and capital are mobile, state spending has a lower return on investment if people or businesses leave the domicile. This trend ...

Oncologist leads drive for tobacco stock divestment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... advertising or moving towards plain packaging. Further risks include litigation risk, or social risks such as the use of child labour in harvesting tobacco, King noted. "For the health-related funds, the decision has been partly based on the fact that ...