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FSC standard mandates ESG policy for superannuation funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... product, superannuation funds must develop and implement a proxy voting policy and disclosure standard, and a board diversity policy including the establishment of "measurable objectives for achieving gender diversity for the board to assess annually ...

AMP Capital increases focus on corporate succession planning

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... quality of the people.... We've been engaging with companies on supply chain, we've been engaging with companies on diversity, on remuneration, and I think we've made good progress, and recently have been looking at the skills companies need to move ...

350.org Australia issues ASX200 fossil fuel divestment study

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... Wood said. "We recognise that for superannuation funds, it's a little more challenging given the scale of funds and the diversity of assets under their management.... In addition to moving out of the sectors, we need to be looking at investing in the ...

Global Alliance for Banking on Values to meet in Melbourne

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... conference last year, which was held in Berlin, we released a declaration to shift the industry towards transparency, diversity and sustainability in banking," Walsh said. "I think the first take-away from this year is to continue to look at how we can ...

APRA: 22% of superannuation fund directors women

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... 2013, "which is 27 more than the 41 in 2006," according to APRA. By comparison, according to Women on Board's Boardroom Diversity Index 2013, 15.8% of board positions on ASX200 companies are held by women, 25% of companies do not have a woman on their ...

AMP Capital identifies ESG risks to Australian retailers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... couple of cases where better staff engagement has led to better customer satisfaction. In a similar vein, we looked at diversity and the percentage of women in different categories. If there is a different discrepancy between the diversity of staff and ...

Australian mining companies report on human rights policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... Richard Boele, director, Global Compact Network Australia The four companies differ in terms of size, geographic reach and diversity, and the four case studies address different human rights issues, but the commonality is that each company has committed ...

Natural Capital Declaration named biodiversity champion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... Capital Declaration (NCD) has been named a Biodiversity Champion by the secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). CBD recognised NCD for its contribution to the implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020. NCD is ...

ACSI: ASX100 boards more diverse in gender, background

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... highest in the 12 years that ACSI has performed this research. Companies in the ASX101-200 still lag their peers in gender diversity, with women accounting for less than 10% of all individual directorships in the ASX101-200, and more than half of ASX101-200 ...

NGS Super to launch stand-along SRI fund option

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... shares, so they will probably be folded into this option," Rodwell-Ball said. "It'll be a question of finding appropriate diversity of assets in the infrastructure and the defensive assets, because we need to find more in the social bond space. We looked ...