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Australian companies still lag on anti-corruption policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the UK Bribery Act 2010. These pieces of legislation can impact on Australian and New Zealand organisation with international operations or who deal with US and UK-based firms. In their survey, KPMG recommends dealing ...

Mercer to analyse climate change portfolio risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... consider climate risk with both a near and long-term view. The analysis also aims to be more granular." Cbus Super, New Zealand Super Fund and State Super Financial Services are among the participants partnering in this study. This year's project will ...

Local property companies continue GRESB outperformance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
Australian/New Zealand property companies continue to outperform global peers in sustainability reporting and performance, according to the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) 2014 results. Australia/NZ property companies received an ...

RIAA: Increased public demand for responsible investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... acknowledging that they have to account for ESG and that idea has become embedded across the mainstream in Australia and New Zealand. We now have to demonstrate that there is public demand for that. Where we see that play out is in the increase in demand ...

Northern Trust's Bowers on ESG and funds management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... clients want, rather than imposing our view on ESG to them," Bowers said. "Our range of clients is from the Nordics to New Zealand and everywhere in between. A Middle East view on ESG is different to a Nordic view of ESG, is different to an Australia ...

ACCSR: Australian CSR integration is too little, too slow

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... for Corporate Social Responsibility ACCSR has released the State of Corporate Social Responsibility in Australia and New Zealand Annual Review, which is an ongoing study of organisational CSR capabilities and performance. This year, 990 organisations ...

AXA IM develops impact investing fund of funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... from the Australian market, said Craig Hurt, the Sydney-based director of AXA Investment Managers in Australia and New Zealand. Interest in Australia is influenced by the relatively low fees associated with a quantitative strategy as well as thee ability ...

LGS Taps AMP Capital for social infrastructure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... that." CommIF is in an unlisted portfolio of high quality, PPP-style social infrastructure assets in Australia and New Zealand, AMP Capital said. The assets are characterised as social infrastructure PPP assets within education, water, health, justice ...

Labour rights, NGO activism and governance cited as ESG trends

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... the Oxfam report as an example of that. Ulysses Chioatto, executive director and head of research for Australia and New Zealand for ISS, said that there has been somewhat of an uncoupling of considering environmental and social issues as part of overall ...

ASX companies lag global peers in disclosing water risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... CDP in 2013. "There was a low response rate from the invited companies," said James Day, director - Australia and New Zealand, CDP. "We invited companies from water sensitive sectors -around half of the ASX100, and only 23 responded.... Of the companies ...