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Investors to call on ERSB to investigate carbon asset risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB), urging the newly formed board to investigate if the European Union's exposure to high carbon investments poses a systemic financial risk and how to manage the "potential threat" to economic security. The letter ...

Mercer gives top rating to 9% of ESG strategies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
Only 9% of more than 5,000 investment strategies in Mercer database achieve the highest ratings on environmental, social and governance (ESG) ratings. Mercer has rated strategies within its Global Investment Manager Database (GIMD) for ESG since 2008 ...

ASX50 companies slow to adopt integrated reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... front-of-mind activities. "They're all experienced reporters which proves it's a long process," Evans said. "They're also high risk industries, which means that they have systems in place to manage risk and they recognise that [integrated reporting]is ...

Debate over setting surrender charges for carbon units

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... the implicit call option. However, this problem is more fundamental: The government imposed the floor price and at such a high premium to the international price, that the option cost is very expensive and liable entities were not compensated for the ...

CDP: companies put climate change risk into supply chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
Global businesses are increasingly integrating climate change strategies into their supply chain procurement guidelines, but suppliers' rates of reducing greenhouse gas emission are lower than their corporate clients, according to a Carbon Disclosure ...

Institutional investors put climate change into risk budget

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... analysis are that the carbon price will have minimal immediate impact on the valuation of the Fund's portfolio, given the high levels of compensation at the start of the scheme. However, a carbon price does set up a framework for long term structural ...

ESG investment analysis - answering the "so-what" question

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
Fund management professionals say that the continuing quest to demonstrate the tangible costs and benefits of integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into portfolio valuations will be a dominant theme for 2012, along with continued ...

KPMG: companies should review anti-corruption policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... ASX-listed companies. According to the ACSI report, three quarters of ASX100 companies operate in a sector or country deemed "high-risk" for corruption, up from 56% in 2006. The report further notes that 126 of ASX200 companies are exposed to countries ...

CSIRO: engagement increases wind farm development approval

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... this include the relatively low and volatile prices of the Renewable Energy Certificates, regulatory factors, and apparently high levels of community resistance to some new wind developments," the CSIRO study said. This resistance presents a 'social ...

Superannuation to heed call for greater disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... classes. For example a fund might disclose that 20% of the portfolio is in Australian equities. Of that 20%, 10% of that is in high growth or value stocks and within that, 2% are in financial services, 3% in mining, and the rest is in listed property. ...