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AMP Capital, VFMC publish 2011 proxy voting record

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... ESG investment manager. "Constitution changes were the third most common issue," she said in a statement to The Sustainability Report. AustralianSuper did not provide any statistics on the percentage of resolutions they voted against, but noted that ...

CDP writes companies asking for carbon management and cuts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... events, a growing understanding that emissions reduction activities can be cost-effective, protecting the financial sustainability of loans on the part of banks, and investments on the part of asset managers and pension funds, increasing use of environmental ...

Leightons under investigation over payment disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... will be any adverse financial consequences for Leighton." Leighton Holdings did not respond to a call from The Sustainability Report as of press time. Paterson said that harmonisation of legislation in different countries around the definitions of and ...

Mercer gives top rating to 9% of ESG strategies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... competitive reasons for active ownership. Of the strategies rated ESG1, 58% of the ESG1 rated strategies are "ESG" or "Sustainability" branded or thematic strategies, and 72% are managed by signatories to the United Nations Principles for Responsible ...

Call for working group on shareholder resolution reform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... ANZ declined to put the resolution to shareholders. In a letter to Thomas of Ethinvest that was provided to The Sustainability Report, ANZ Chair John Morschel explained the bank's reasoning. "At ANZ we considered the resolution proposed by Ethinvest ...

ASX50 companies slow to adopt integrated reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... Balance. "Companies do look at governance, how they look after matters within the company, and they do look at some sustainability factors. Within Australia, they look at environmental factors, but most of that is focused on long term property valuation. ...

CDP: companies put climate change risk into supply chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... years (19% in 2009, and 28% in 2010). Some 7% of companies award preferential status to suppliers who show strong sustainability measures, 17% recognize them through external communications such as press releases, and 38% highlight their performance ...

Henry Davis York reports increase in pro bono, energy and travel

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... administrative and management staff, but also disclosed increases in purchased energy, travel and paper usage in its 2011 sustainability report. Henry Davis York has published sustainability reports since 2008 and the firm sees sustainability as part ...

MSCI launches ESG ratings for sovereign bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... management of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risk factors. MSCI ESG Sovereign Ratings provide an overall sustainability assessment of 90 countries covering developed, emerging and frontier markets, and contain historical time series results ...

Institutional investors put climate change into risk budget

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... impact the valuations of the asset. As a result, during the year AustralianSuper joined the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB), an initiative to assess the environmental and social performance of public and private property investments." ...