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Industry to coordinate efforts to develop impact investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... decisions in ways that weren't' possible before. This will also happen with institutional investors - social benefits will evolve from being a nice-to-have, but more and more, even the institutional investors will be required to consider the social impact ...

Westpac focuses on demographics, environment in strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... selected those areas because they were most material to the bank as a financial institution as well as being themes that will evolve over the next 30 years. Alison Ewings, head of sustainability, Westpac "The work around demographics for us will be initially ...

The hidden movement: how responsible brands strike back

STEPHEN HALE  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
Ed Note: The Sustainability Report welcomes this comment from Stephen Hale, a director at Core and former founding MD of OgilvyEarth. Core is an independent Sydney-based marketing and strategy agency Stephen Hale The other day a well known marketing ...

ACCSR reports on state of corporate social responsibility

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
Lack of organisational buy-in or commitment to corporate social responsibility (CSR) is the greatest single obstacle to its success, according to the Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ACCSR)'s annual review. The ACCSR's The State ...

IIRC publishes integrated reporting prototype

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... executive. "We have found out the hard way in recent years that our capital markets, governance and reporting systems need to evolve to encourage financial stability and a greater long term focus. Integrated reporting will be one of the tools that ensure ...

AXA IM brings ESG equities analytic framework to Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... functioned. AXA IM defined a "best in class" board as one with "An appropriate mix of directors with the right skill sets that evolve in line with company strategy, healthy turnover and proper succession planning, and a board composition that reflects ...

Investors, traders welcome Australian/EU ETS linkage

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... carbon offset trading industry. "We see this as a good thing for the domestic carbon market and hope that as the two schemes evolve, the international price should equalise, meaning that Australian companies are no worse off than their international ...

ASX report shows companies' progress on gender diversity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... targets to increase the number of women in the organisation," Medd said. "It's a good start, and clearly it will improve or evolve over time. Hopefully more companies will see the benefit of applying rigor to gender diversity as they have in setting ...

Australian Ethical management survive general meeting vote

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... had been voted down, and now that the general meeting was finished, the company would continue with plans put in place to evolve some business operations, Vernon said. "Over the last 18 months or so, we have been going through a bit of change, such as ...

Majority of ASX200 lack formal labour, human rights policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
Only 14% of ASX200 companies have formal policies addressing labour and human rights issues, despite the index's heavy weighting towards sectors with high frequency and/or severity of labour and human rights controversies, according to a new report ...