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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... Framework" proposed by UN Special Representative John Ruggie, has provided investors with an opportunity to evaluate human rights risk in a more cohesive manner. Edgerton noted that evaluating human rights and other social risks are important, given ...

GESB Super to drop responsible investment option

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... dedicated responsible investment option "less relevant". "The decision also reflects GESB's desire to lessen concentration risk by moving away from single-manager based investment options," said GESB Acting-CEO, Larry Rudman. "When GESB first established ...

Companies testing labour, human rights supply chain standards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... labour and human rights KPI project to provide investors and companies with a method to objectively assess a significant risk factor that has commanded the concern and attention of many of the world's largest corporations and investors." The IIRC did ...

KPMG: companies should review anti-corruption policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... many organisations." A functional anti-corruption and anti-bribery policy will feature processes for awareness training, risk assessment, channels for raising concern and for corporate response when concerns are raised, Luijerink said. "Awareness training ...

Superannuation to heed call for greater disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... investment actually reflect the asset allocation you disclose in the [product disclosure statement] PDS and reflect the level of risk disclosed in the PDS. That's a compliance-cum-audit function. There are two ways to achieve that. Either you get the ...

Investors make 2012 climate change investment commitments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
The Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR), a collaborative group of more than 100 institutional investors managing nearly US$10tr, has agreed to an agenda that will further integrate climate risks and opportunities into investment portfolios and processes ...

Climate change, human rights, social justice top 2012 agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... corporate engagement firm Regnan. "We are seeing more and more people looking at how companies are going to deal with weather risk," Wilson said. "Some of them are very exposed - not just the insurance sector, but others w / a flow on effect. We ask ...

Integrated Reporting to generate value, costs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
Integrated reporting (IR) will help organisations communicate their strategy and how they generate value, but it must do so without eroding current methodologies must respect regulatory and legislative responsibilities for company directors, according ...

Highlights of a year in The Sustainability Report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... reduce" effects of carbon tax on industry With companies increasingly integrating sustainability into their strategies for risk management and return, the discussion has turned to integrated reporting - whether environmental, social and governance (ESG) ...

Share placements become governance issue for investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... capital equity raising is priced and built and ensure that fees associated with a equity capital raising reflect value and risk, according to governance experts and institutional and retail investors. How companies structure access to equity capital ...