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Westpac signs on to Soft Commodities Compact

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... help clients achieve zero net deforestation by 2020. The Soft Commodities Compact has been developed by the Banking Environment Initiative in partnership with the Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) to support CGF member companies in transforming their commodity ...

GRESB launches 2014 survey

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014  |  NEWS
The Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) has launched is 2014 survey, its fifth year of operation. In 2013, 550 property companies and funds, managing US$1.6 trillion in value, participated in the GRESB survey. The Global Real Estate ...

ASX includes ESG language in corporate governance guidance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... 7% of listed companies produced any sustainability disclosure. The introduction of this recommendation will bring environment, social and economic risks to the fore, and result in many more companies measuring their sustainability impacts and performance' ...

ESG integration into quantitative investment management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... and built a passive index off of that," Salvatico said. "MSCI has standard thematic solutions, such as the Global Environment Index.... The other thing that we've seen, and it's quite interesting, is that in the last three years super funds are interested ...

CEFC to provide $100m financing through Balmain Corporation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... see CEFC finance used for major building retrofits that are designed to lift a property's National Australian Built Environment Rating System (NABERS) rating by at least two stars, up to at least four stars, CEFC said. "Up to 80% of Australia's commercial ...

Ethical Investment Advisers launches fossil-fuel free SMA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
Brisbane-based financial planners Ethical Investment Advisers has launched a separately managed account (SMA) based on Australian equities that are screened to eliminate fossil fuel exposures. Louise Edkins, director, Ethical Investment Advisers The ...

PRI finds limited disclosure of fracking activity, impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
Oil and gas producing and servicing companies provide "very limited" disclosure around risks and impacts of their hydraulic fracturing (fracking) activity, according to research commissioned by the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). Fiona ...

Teachers Mutual Bank, NAB, Westpac top "most ethical" list

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... five sustainability priority areas - business practices, the education sector, its members, its employees, and the environment, the bank said. Ethisphere Institute selects companies based on its proprietary rating system, the Ethics Quotient (EQ). A ...

Crowe Horwath: sustainability as competitive advantage

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... manage stakeholder engagement and understand the demands of the social groups, and how they can establish links between environment and social aspects." Not all countries in South America have equal rates of sustainability reporting, and there is not ...

Senate rejects CPM repeal, business calculates liabilities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... practical application, it doesn't change things for liable entities, purely because we're operating in an uncertain environment for companies," Grossman said. "Most companies are continuing to assume that the carbon price will be in place, whether this ...