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ASX companies report shared value strategies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... Steel said. "Most companies here are still in that very aspirational stage - they're aspiring to do shared value. There are a few, such as NAB and a few others, who are further ahead, and much more evolved in their thinking. Most of them are right at ...

Good Money opens Adelaide retail store

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... youth unemployment, Mooney said. Adelaide will also face the closure of large automobile manufacturing plants over the next few years. "The median weekly personal income is around $450 dollars, lower by $100 to the rest of Adelaide," Mooney noted. "A ...

PRI active on climate change, tax avoidance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... first step in establishing those broader frameworks, Reynolds said. PRI also recently released its annual report. "There are a few highlights to me," Reynolds said. "We went through obviously a very long and involved governance review. We got our new ...

NCD launches Soft Commodities Forest-risk Assessment Tool

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... risks linked to loans or investments in companies involved in soft commodities, particularly soy, palm oil and beef. However, few financial institutions are systematically quantifying their exposure to risks or creating opportunities related to the production ...

NZ Super Fund selects Northern Trust for passive mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund has (NZ Super Fund) selected Northern Trust Asset Management to manage a global fixed income mandate which includes the fund's environmental, social and governance (ESG) screens. Wayne Bowers, CEO, CIO Europe, the ...

Government proposes governance changes for super boards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... boards have already taken the opportunity to supplement their skills and have appointed independent directors over the past few years." The Governance Institute of Australia said it will continue to advocate for a majority of independent directors on ...

BNY Mellon offers ESG data to depositary receipt clients

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... companies in several countries. Gresham particularly cited Australia as one of those test countries. "We did test it in a few markets, and Australia was one of the markets," he said. "I was in Australia earlier this year, talking with corporates in Australia ...

Investors integrating ESG in quant portfolios: Northern Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... also identified corporate governance risk in emerging markets as another ESG risk, Sarr said. "We have noticed over the past few years that clients are concerned about the performance of emerging markets versus risk," he said. "The main concern is that ...

Inflection Point CM to launch Carbon Zero fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... business model is preventing more carbon or removing carbon. The minimum goal is net carbon zero portfolio, which means a few things. You have at least a shot of outperformance, you certainly have the capacity to engage with companies, and, by the way ...

Funds using custodian to monitor ESG mandates: J.P. Morgan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... exposures, said Stuart Hoy, product manager, Investment Information Services, J.P. Morgan Investor Services in Australia. "A few of our clients are UNPRI signatories, so they look to us to get visibility into the companies in their portfolios, where ...