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Christian Super selects three impact investment funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... Marekera to the task of researching and analysing impact investments, which Murphy said allows the fund to access a wider scope of opportunities than would normally be open to a fund of Christian Super's size - the fund has AU$960 million in assets under ...

ASX50 companies not making strategic case for sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... language to understand what role sustainability risk has in the short, medium and long-term." See Also: ASIC guide widens scope of risk, future prospect disclosure ASX includes ESG language in corporate governance guidance

Demand for responsible investments a call to action: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... products is most clearly articulated by younger people at the beginning of their careers and retirees, meaning that there was scope to develop products aimed at both demographics. There is also increasing interest from high net worth (HNW) individuals ...

APRA adds materiality to trustees' risk management declaration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... informed superannuation fund trustees that materiality is part of the board's risk management declaration, widening the scope of risks that trustees must disclose to the prudential regulator. Dr Ulysses Chioatto, former executive director and head of ...

CDP recognise ASX companies for climate action

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... CDP said. Commonwealth Bank also won largest relative carbon reduction, reporting a 13.9% reduction relative to its total scope 1 and 2 carbon emissions in 2014. Largest absolute carbon reduction went to Rio Tinto, with the company reporting a 4,620,110 ...

MSCI assesses future carbon exposure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... a future looking view when it comes to carbon assets.... We distinguish between the carbon emissions data, which is the scope one and two data that the likes of CDP and so forth have done a good job of encouraging companies to report on. Of course, to ...

MSCI launches ESG CarbonMetrics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... CarbonMetrics provides oil and gas reserves and potential emissions data along with direct and indirect carbon emissions - Scope 1 and 2 - for approximately 9,000 issuers in the MSCI ACWI Investable Market Index, MSCI said. The screening thresholds and ...

Sustainalytics hires Gary Hewitt

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... will "complement and integrate" with Sustainalytics' environmental, social and governance (ESG) research solutions. "The scope of corporate governance practices and behaviors impacting a company's long-term ability to create shareholder value continues ...

Diversity Council Australia measures the bamboo ceiling

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... cultural engagement with the world." DCA's report is a step in engaging with Australian businesses by first defining the scope of the situation. Annese said she is not in favour of a quota or target approach to increasing the representation of people ...

PRI to target water risk in agricultural supply chains

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... Wildlife Fund (WWF) and PwC Germany. WWF and PwC established a target universe of 78 companies to examine, "based on the scope of company reach, investor exposure globally and market capitalisation among other factors," according to the report. The research ...