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ANZ reviewing "sensitive sector" policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... documents that are user-friendly and provide effective guidance to relationship managers and risk officers across our business." ANZ has a common set of policies governing customer engagement in the four sectors and cover products and services including ...

Global push for "report or explain" on ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... Balance.Other partners include the Green Economy Coalition, the Unit for Corporate Governance in Africa, Lawyers for Better Business, SOMO, Calvert Investments, and IDEARSE. The Australian Stock Exchange has not yet adopted a report or explain policy ...

Integrated reporting - should ASX follow in South Africa's footsteps?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... Governance Principles and Recommendations. Principle 7 establishes how companies should disclose and communicate "material" business risks, including: operational, environmental, sustainability, compliance, strategic, ethical, reputation or brand, technological ...

Westpac targets 40 percent women in senior management by 2014

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... driving diversity down the supply chain. "It's important to us that our suppliers share the same standards of sustainable business practices and continuous improvement as we do," the bank said. "We screen our suppliers before we engage them to ensure ...

Nominations open for GRI's Stakeholder Council

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... member to the 2012-2014 Stakeholder Council, its policy forum. There are 50 members to the Stakeholder Council, drawn from business, mediating institutions, and civil society organisations, but council members do not represent their employers. Currently ...

Australian companies fail on labour reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... local and international standards, OHS policy and management, and responsibilities to workforce of sub-contractors and business partners. Banarra assigned evaluations of high, medium and low based on alignment with guidelines to companies' stakeholder ...

GRI releases new standards for sustainability reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011  |  NEWS
Global Reporting Initiative (GRI ) has updated its sustainability guidance to enhance reporting of operations impacting on human rights, gender and community. The new version, 3.1, is touted as improvements that strengthen expansiveness of reporting ...

Sustainability reporting: the drive towards integration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011  |  NEWS
... challenge, actually, is that a lot of reports and reporters today look at sustainability as a compartment and a niche within business as opposed to looking at all the business issues and business strategies that could have a sustainability impact or ...

Mercer expands ESG consulting capability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011  |  NEWS
... specialist advice that Mercer can deliver across a range of subjects, including Responsible Investment," said Graeme Mather, business leader for Mercer's Investment Consulting business in Australia and New Zealand.

ANZ targets 40 percent women managers by September

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011  |  NEWS
... management positions to 40 percent by the end of September as part of increasing their gender diversity throughout the business. Currently, 38.4 percent of managers are women, the bank said. The bank highlighted this move in the context of its wider ...