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Mariner Investment Group selects MSCI ESG Research

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... cutting-edge concepts underpinning multi-factor modelling that will give them a competitive advantage once they enter the workforce," said Deborah Berebichez, vice president for portfolio management analytics at MSCI. "These students are the next generation ...

Corporates should look beyond CSR to creating shared value

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... services around the world. "I think it is fairly universal for organisations, particularly organisations with a young workforce," Dunn said. "... [M]any people are concerned about things that are greater than the organisation they work for and themselves ...

National Sustainability Council issues macro-theme report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... and in health. If we're going to meet the big economic challenges of the next 30 years, we're going to need a skilled workforce and we need to address the inequalities in education." The report notes that over the past 20 years, there have been large ...

Westpac focuses on demographics, environment in strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... population will be over 65 by 2050, and said they will increase flexible working practices to help people stay in the workforce longer as well as increase employee participation from groups that are currently under-represented in the workplace. Looking ...

ACCSR conference tackles practice of responsible leadership

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... initiative. Chapman said that when Xtrata began operating in South Africa ten years ago, one in five employees out of a workforce of 23,000 were HIV positive. Xtrata partnered with a group called Re-Action!, and subsequently developed a program that ...

ANZ discloses ESG metrics in 2012 shareholder review

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... their existing water and energy policies, as part of their sensitive sectors policy statements. In terms of internal workforce, ANZ said that while it had aimed to increase the percentage of women in management positions to 40% in 2012, it remained steady ...

Charter Hall publishes first sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... company said it aimed to have voluntary turnover reduced to 14% by 2014. The company wrote of its commitment to a diverse workforce in its sustainability report, noting that women represent 50% of their total workforce, but that the ratios are not the ...

A view on Woolworths' corporate responsibility report

JOSH DOWSE  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... is a good guide to diversity progress in corporate Australia - everyone's a customer, so it may makes sense for the workforce to reflect that. More than most firms, it does. As with most firms, though, female representation is light in the more senior ...

In 2040, when growth is a memory: Josh Dowse

JOSH DOWSE  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... columns, I'll quote again: "You will see that the global population will peak much earlier than you thought, as will the workforce. The reason is the reduced desired family size in increasingly urban populations. Labor productivity (and hence production ...

Sustainable development and Australia in the Asian Century

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... cities; and embed green skills across all industry training. Mellon likened the need to embed green skills across the workforce to the push to embed occupational safety across the workforce. "Nowadays, it's not enough to have one sustainability manager ...