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ASX companies under the spotlight for global investor engagement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... disclose to the guidelines in the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) reporting guidelines. "The reason for that is, we're looking at climate risk at that as a financial ...

CGI Glass Lewis makes appointments for Australia, APAC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... disputes and international arbitration practice at Berkeley Research Group, and was also previously with the forensic accounting and audit practices of KPMG. Foo will report to Eric Shostal, Glass Lewis' senior vice president of research and engagement. ...

BlackRock seeks plans for company transition to net zero

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... alignment with the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), which covers a broader set of material sustainability factors," Fink said. "We are greatly ...

Tech platform to assist ASX companies in ESG reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... of Governance, Planet, People, and Prosperity, and draw linkages to reporting standards including GRI, International Accounting Standards, SASB, the TCFD, CDSB and others. "The big four accounting firms know the difficulties in collecting ESG metrics ...

Water, water risk everywhere: DWS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... citing the EU Water Charter as a guide for policies, and accountants are needed to develop a full ESG Globally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) with auditing of countries, companies and investors regarding their entire environmental and social impacts ...

Successful ESG integration: moving from why to how

GUILLAUME MASCOTTO  |  TUESDAY, 29 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... definitions and a solid methodological baseline for security analysis. There continues to be no generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) for ESG. The explanatory effect of ESG on returns in the context of stock market crises also remains subject ...

Global fund manager joins Climate Action 100+

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... of 167 companies are engaged through Climate Action 100+. The focus list includes 'systemically important emitters', accounting for two-thirds of annual global industrial greenhouse emissions, alongside others with significant opportunity to drive the ...

International sustainability accounting standards bodies to merge

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
The International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) and the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) will merge into one organisation by mid-2021. The resulting entity, the Value Reporting Foundation, will provide investors and companies with ...

Bank, state government become first buyers of Reef Credits

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... estimated at $4 billion. Reef Credits deliver a quantifiable measurement of outcomes, using methodologies from the Accounting For Nature framework. "We have a sense that there is strong demand there," he said. "Government will be a significant buyer ...

The intersection of conduct culture and company value

SUSHEELA PERES DA COSTA  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... intangible value. While these assets add value, they are difficult to measure and so tend to remain largely ignored by accounting standards, resulting in intangible value mostly going unrecognised in statutory balance sheets. This is slowly changing ...