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VicSuper chooses SSgA for active global equities ESG mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... voted to gradually divest from holdings in tobacco products. At the time of the announced decision, VicSuper's current investment in tobacco accounted for less than 0.5% of the total portfolio. The ESG integration will occur in the stock selection process ...

AMP Capital identifies ESG risks to Australian retailers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... focus on long-term relationships and outcomes." The report also cited structural change to the retail market as an investment risk to Australian retailers - the report named technology changes, changing consumer behaviour and performance and globalisation ...

NAB sets five-year corporate responsibility commitments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... relationship with money." The second pillar - building prosperous communities - covers the banks' commercial business and investment activities, but will also communicate their work with not for profits, employee volunteering programs and sponsorship ...

Australian mining companies report on human rights policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... appropriate to each of those companies," Boele said. "There is a powerful level of commitment, and powerful level of investment, and a level of work that's common between them. The number one thing that mining companies need to take from it is take a ...

Westpac discloses environmental, social, financial metrics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... mature aged employees. On environmental indicators, the bank reported committing up to AU$6 billion for lending and investment in cleantech and environmental services by 2017 and said that AU$43.6 billion has been lent. "Progress to date has been primarily ...

GRI makes appointments to Stakeholder Council

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... Stakeholder Council. Poulter, executive director of the Asset Owners Disclosure Project, will be a representative for the investment institutions constituency, and Keogh, head of sustainability - Asia Pacific and Australia, will be a representative for ...

bankmecu: integrated reporting develops integrated thinking

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... activities to measure social impact in quantifiable metrics, hiring Net Balance in 2011 to conduct a s ocial return on investment study into the community housing sector in Australia, a sector to which bankmecu has provided significant finance. The study ...

CEFC invests $536 million across 39 projects in first year

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... investments of over AU$536 million, and every dollar that the CEFC has invested has attracted $2.90 of private sector investment. CEFC CEO Oliver Yates The CEFC has released its annual report for the 2012/2013 financial year. The CEFC launched on 1 July ...

RIAA to engage NZ investors on climate change, investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
New Zealand investment management professionals will debate climate change and unburnable carbon among other topics at the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) briefing in Auckland today. Simon O'Connor, RIAA CEO The 4 th annual Responsible ...

Video Panel: Integrating ESG in Fixed Income Investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... factors into the selection, management and monitoring of these portfolios; and the potential impact of responsible investment strategies. The panel was sponsored by MSCI ESG Research and Barclays. Moderated by Rachel Alembakis, publisher of The Sustainability ...