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Fewer ASX companies see carbon price as a business risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... score for the CDLI has increased significantly since last year's report - this year, the minimum disclosure score for inclusion in the ASX200CDL I was 86, up from 74 in 2011. The minimum score for inclusion in the NZX50 CDLI was 74. The report notes ...

Cruelty Free Super celebrates second birthday

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... Australian wraps or platforms, mainly because it is not structured as a unit trust, which is usually a prerequisite for inclusion. Thus, members have found their way to Cruelty Free Super via social media and through events that the fund attends. Coates ...

ANZ, GPT Group named 2012 DJSI supersector leaders

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... sustainability investing, and S&P Dow Jones Indices. In their assessment of ANZ Bank, DSJI pointed to ANZ's new financial inclusion strategy, their strategy to reduce their long-term environmental footprint and provide disclosure on targets and progress ...

ANZ a leader in financial inclusion, with scope to expand

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
ANZ is a leader both in Australia and internationally for the development, strategy and delivery of financial inclusion and capability programs, according to a third-party review of the bank. According to the review by the Allen Consulting Group, ANZ's ...

Banks' plans address Indigenous hiring, financial exclusion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... groups. Westpac works with Jawun in Cape York and in Redfern, a suburb of Sydney. "There's employment, there's customer inclusion and there's community engagement and you can't do one without the other," said Sandy Blackburn-Wright, head of organisational ...

NAB partners to launch Victorian microfinance retail hubs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... transaction account into loans, maybe general insurance, home ownership, all the way into moderate and full financial inclusion. Research shows that there is a strong positive relationship between financial inclusion and social inclusion, whereby people ...

SAM targets 2,500 companies for sustainability assessment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... the 2,500 largest companies in the world to take part in the SAM Corporate Sustainability Assessment, the basis for inclusion in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI). The corporate sustainability assessment is an analysis of a company based on ...

GPT Group reports 2011 reductions in waste, energy and water

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... tax to as being "mainly due to mark to market movements on derivatives, which did not impact distributions, and the inclusion in 2010 of a substantial uplift in the value of the US Seniors Housing portfolio." GPT is a diversified property group, which ...

Optus CR discloses responsible marketing, customer service

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... responsible marketing, customer service and safety, driving innovation and uptake of technology and building social inclusion were all material issues to their corporate responsibility (CR) goal. Optus, a subsidiary of the ASX and Singapore Exchange-listed ...

Investors urge adoption of carbon legislation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
The Gillard government has introduced its Clean Energy Future Legislation into parliament and scheduled a vote in the House of Representatives for 12 October, a move welcomed by the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC). Under legislation outlined ...