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LGS adapts investment screens for Sustainable Australian Shares option

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2016  |  NEWS
... changes, including broadening existing screens to exclude companies that provide "significant services" to prohibited industries including armaments, weapons, tobacco, mining and gambling; a new screen that precludes investment in companies in fossil ...

NAB Asset Servicing launches ESG reporting service

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2016  |  NEWS
... administration business. The reporting service will allow clients such as superannuation funds to drill into data through industries, market capitalisation and individual holdings to "assess and compare ESG exposures between different portfolios and ...

Banks, fund managers developing ethical cash products

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2016  |  NEWS
... and values based investing," Pedley said. "Increasingly, charities and foundations have their own list of excluded industries and sectors as ethical becomes very much part of the mainstream rather than a niche investor segment."

BlackRock presses case for better ESG disclosures for investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... definitions of ESG and developing a common lexicon. d.Providing guidance that recognises the need to tailor reporting to industries. 2.Establish safe harbour provisions that ensure companies who initiate ESG factor reporting do not face retrospective ...

ACCR highlights lack of transparency in political donations

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... donations at this year's AGM season. On its website, ACCR has drafted model resolutions for the fossil fuel and banking industries. "We have draft potential resolutions on the websites, one for fossil fuel companies, and one for banks," Le Couteur said. ...

ARENA funds Southern Oil Refining biofuel lab pilot

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... "clear potential" for biofuel production and refining in Australia, said Ivor Frischknecht, ARENA CEO. "Our agricultural industries have an abundance of plant waste that can be ideal biocrude feedstock and there are several potential markets for selling ...

Disconnects holding back gender diversity: EY report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... disruption without gender diversity? Think again, a survey of 350 C-suite executives from the top 200 companies in seven industries around the world. The majority - 69% - told EY that they believe they will achieve gender parity on their board within ...

Dimensional Fund Advisors launches Global Sustainability Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... communications, at Dimensional Fund Advisors Australia. "A lot of in-and-out strategies can mean you end up excluding entire industries that result in a not very diverse portfolio," Parker said. "This is a way of rewarding performance by weighting towards ...

Australia to implement EITI standard

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2016  |  NEWS
Australia will join the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), nearly four years after first studying the initiative for applicability. Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative is an international set of standards for transparency ...

Companies exposed to water scarcity risks: Sustainalytics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2016  |  NEWS
... encourage efficient water use. Sustanalytics analysed companies in the food products, semiconductors and utilities industries and found that 40% of the companies have poor water management programs, despite having exposures such as competing in water-intensive ...