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Companies, investors prepared for carbon price launch

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... we believe the preparation of liable listed companies is adequate to good," said Nathan Fabian, chief executive of the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC). "We suspect that in the last couple of months, there have been some companies getting up to ...

CDP: water a substantial risk to ASX100 companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... questions, we won't have good visibility. We are just getting around to managing carbon in our supply chain. From an investor perspective, they were keen that we include these questions, because it potentially presents such a large proportion of water ...

MSCI launches ESG portfolio analytics tool

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
MSCI has launched MSCI ESG Portfolio Analytics, a reporting tool to help fund managers and institutional investors assess the ESG characteristics and risk profile of an equity portfolio. MSCI ESG Portfolio Analytics reports include portfolio and index ...

Australian Ethical management survive general meeting vote

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... their "natural audience", he said. "Australian Ethical has done reasonably well over the years being a high conviction investor with over 18,000 investors" Vernon said. "However 1.2m people voted for the Green Party at the last federal election. Without ...

Mercer: green bonds deserve investment consideration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
Green bonds have relatively simple structures and credit quality and yield levels similar to AAA bonds, meriting "consideration as an allocation within a fixed interest portfolio," but a lack of issuance depth is a challenge for institutional investors ...

Investors call for management of fugitive methane emissions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
The Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) and two other global investor groups are calling on companies to minimise methane emissions from gas and oil production through hydraulic fracturing. IGCC, the European Institutional Investors Group on Climate ...

Investor Profile: Five Oceans Asset Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... companies. What you find there is that the information flows are quite strong, and a lot of the companies manage their investor relation capability such that you can talk to their people about issues, but again, ESG is a more complex issue on all factors ...

ACSI may name companies with poor sustainability disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... be of questionable quality," according to research from the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI). The investor group has further warned that they will consider naming companies that "continually fail to provide meaningful disclosure." ...

IIRC to publish integrated reporting framework in 2013

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
The International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) will focus on four main themes in developing its integrated reporting framework - the definition of integrated reporting, its target audience, the concept of value and the timing of the framework's ...

GRI Focal Point's local angle to sustainability disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... First State Global Asset Management. Locally, other groups are looking into the issue as well. Nathan Fabian, CEO of the Investor Group on Climate Change, said that while the issue of "comply or explain" is of interest, there are limitations to the proposal ...