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Companies consider implications of new ASX principles

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015  |  NEWS
As listed companies prepare to make annual reports based on the third edition of the ASX Corporate Governance Council's Corporate Governance Principles and Recommendations, the application of two parts, relating to risk management and the disclosure ...

Investors integrating ESG in quant portfolios: Northern Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... calculate a portfolio's carbon footprint by using Trucost as a service provider. Investors have also identified corporate governance risk in emerging markets as another ESG risk, Sarr said. "We have noticed over the past few years that clients are concerned ...

Louise Davidson appointed ACSI CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... of ACSI's important work is conducted," said Gerard Noonan, ACSI president. "She's determined to improve corporate governance in listed companies as well as encourage company boards and management to take more seriously their environmental and social ...

New Forests launches responsible investment policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... 2014, one of the things that arose was that the environmental and social policy wasn't explicitly including corporate governance, and we did want to have a policy that included governance alongside social and environmental." The responsible investment ...

Women on Boards tracks gender diversity gains

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... companies continues to be a governance issue for institutional investors. This week, AMP Capitol issued its corporate governance report, and highlighted gender diversity as one of its issues of engagement. AMP Capital Corporate Governance Manager Karin ...

Companies, investors cite overlapping materiality: GRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... equipment sector, and the four most important factors were innovation management, supply chain management, corporate governance and human capital management. Sector specific factors were environmental enabling, privacy protection and data security, and ...

Looking ahead to sustainability trends in 2015

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... to consider when reporting environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. Last year, the ASX Group's Corporate Governance Council published a third edition of the Corporate Governance Principles and Recommendations. As part of that package, ASX has ...

The Sustainability Report's top articles of 2014

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... investment strategies, green bonds, and valuation of corporate social programs. ASX includes ESG language in corporate governance guidance The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has recommended that listed companies disclose how economic, environmental ...

Investment and the art of political maintenance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... fund - but rather to engage with systemic issues, Hagart said. "If an entity is lobbying for a change to corporate governance that will result in fewer protections for investors or less enforcement on companies, then that would make it riskier to invest ...

ASX50 companies not making strategic case for sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... issues and their material impacts as disclosed in the operating and financial review, while the ASX Group's Corporate Governance Council updated its Corporate Governance Principles and Recommendations to include Recommendation 7.4 to Principle 7, covering ...