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Emerging listed miners catching up on corporate governance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... engaged with 18 emerging and more established Western Australian-based mining companies, nine of which are in the ASX200 index. Bennett said that three areas dominated discussions with those companies' boards - board structures, executive compensation ...

SAM appoints head of indexes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
SAM, an investment boutique that manages the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) line, has appointed Guido Giese as head of indexes. Giese is responsible for the development of the DJSI range, which SAM manages in collaboration with S&P Dow Jones ...

IIRC appoints Peter Bakker deputy chair

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... non-financial goals, extensive operational research, and multiple-year leading positions in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index," IIRC said in a statement. He also led the demerger of TNT into two separately listed companies - TNT Express NV and PostNL ...

CDP: water a substantial risk to ASX100 companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... Disclosure questionnaire to 54 companies in the ASX100, while also sending questionnaires to peers in the FTSE Global Equity Index Series (Global500) and the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE). According to the CDP report, Shining the light on corporate ...

MSCI launches ESG portfolio analytics tool

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... ESG characteristics and risk profile of an equity portfolio. MSCI ESG Portfolio Analytics reports include portfolio and index benchmark ESG scores, analysis with the lowest and highest rated positions and assessment of issues including carbon emissions ...

Australian Ethical management survive general meeting vote

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
Shareholders of Australian Ethical have voted to keep the existing board and executive management in place, rejecting a series of resolutions put to a general meeting. Phil Vernon, Australian Ethical managing director The resolutions had been brought ...

Mercer: green bonds deserve investment consideration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
Green bonds have relatively simple structures and credit quality and yield levels similar to AAA bonds, meriting "consideration as an allocation within a fixed interest portfolio," but a lack of issuance depth is a challenge for institutional investors ...

Women make gains on corporate boards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... of women on boards, with 38.4% and 49.1%, respectively, according to the latest Women on Boards Boardroom (WOB) Diversity Index (BDI). While the BDI found incremental progress on ASX200 boards, 64 ASX200 companies do not have a woman on their board. ...

Investor Profile: Five Oceans Asset Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
Five Oceans Asset Management is an international equities fund manager that uses concentrated, non-index relative approaches to building portfolios of listed global equities. The company has integrated environmental, social and corporate governance ...

Majority of ASX200 lack formal labour, human rights policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
Only 14% of ASX200 companies have formal policies addressing labour and human rights issues, despite the index's heavy weighting towards sectors with high frequency and/or severity of labour and human rights controversies, according to a new report ...