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KPMG: top global miners make $1.2bn in social investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
Mining, metals and engineering companies make billions of dollars of social investments, yet few companies report on the impacts these programs are having, according to KPMG. Carl Adams, head of mining, KPMG Australia KPMG's Global Mining Institute ...

ACSI: CEO pay, termination pay drop for FY13

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
The average total statutory pay package of ASX200 CEOs was AU$4.84 million in 2013, which is 63 times average earnings, a 33% drop below the 2007 peak of 94 times average earnings, according to the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI). ...

IIRC considers assurance of Integrated Reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... with an interest in ensuring credibility and trust in, to initiate and get involved in forums around the world over the next few months in order to debate this issue. It's great to be getting the debate started in South Africa, a country that really ...

Learning from Europe's example in social investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... compete especially on scale. The problem of the social enterprise industry at the moment is 'nice but small.' There are very few examples of large scale examples. For example, there is Fair Trade coffee. But then the question is, why has it worked for ...

Mercer research surveys governance at superannuation funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
More than half of superannuation funds participating in a recent Mercer survey have reported that they do not currently have independent directors on their trustee boards. Pam McAlister, partner and senior governance consultant, Mercer Mercer surveyed ...

ACCSR: Australian CSR integration is too little, too slow

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... go, she said. "When I think back to the landscape ten years ago, the change has been dramatic," she said. "There were very few people employed in the function, there was little understanding of the function and the growth in the management practice has ...

IGCC launches Perfect Storm Pension Fund video project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... activity. I think there' still a view that a stable outcome might be possible even if significant abatement isn't taken for a few more years, and that view was reflected." This project can serve as an information point for trustees, and Birgden cited ...

PRI moving ahead with governance review, disclosure regime

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... "We've been out doing a lot of engaging with signatories, and it's been quite a positive experience," Reynolds said. "Quite a few of them were supportive that we were doing the governance review... I would really like it all to be done and dusted by ...

ASX includes ESG language in corporate governance guidance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... bot the ASX and ASIC guidance apply to listed entities, not everything listed on the ASX is a company, so it will catch a few more." George notes that the ASX guidance will also apply across the universe of more than 2,000 entities, meaning that smaller ...

Crowe Horwath: sustainability as competitive advantage

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
Assessing, managing and reporting on sustainability is a source of strategic and competitive value, a message that accountancy firm Crowe Horwath is spreading to its clients through a series of presentations around the country. "There is an economic ...