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Investors conducting climate change risk assessments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... - it's part of the investment process." Asset owners should be encouraged to use professional advice to boost that integration, Birgden noted. "There are a number of tools and that's where asset consultants can help with strategic asset allocation, modelling ...

IIRC releases outline to integrated reporting framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... Druckman, IIRC chief executive officer, in a statement accompanying the release of the IR outline. "The concept of 'integration', embedding value-relevant financial and non-financial information into strategic decision-making and a company's reporting ...

MSCI launches ESG portfolio analytics tool

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... capital development. It offers users that analysis relative to MSCI's global equity and ESG indices. "Demand for ESG integration is growing, but it remains a challenge for many asset owners and managers to assess how effectively ESG risks are taken into ...

Mercer: green bonds deserve investment consideration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... Despite the lack of depth in the market, Mercer does evaluate green bonds as well as few fixed income managers on their integration of ESG into their investment processes, Birdgen said. "There are robust processes and Mercer has rated a very limited ...

Countries join to push sustainability reporting post Rio+20

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... with the support of the UN system, as appropriate, to develop models for best practice and facilitate action for the integration of sustainability reporting, taking into account the experiences of already existing frameworks, and paying particular attention ...

Investor Profile: Omega Global Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... income decision making is the subject of a lot of discussion and analysis around the world. To what extent should ESG integration become a standard for fixed income portfolio construction? M Mc: If you're investing, if you're lending money to a government ...

Skills shortage in oil and gas sector a material ESG risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
Oil and gas companies are exposed to skills shortages in their workforce, and that exposure and companies' strategic responses pose risks to health and safety, to the environment, and to capital expenditure projects for exploration and production, according ...

Superannuation funds increasingly act, invest sustainably

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... policy to Service Providers, up from 30% in 2009. Additionally, 42% of funds told SuperRatings that they use an ESG integration or overlay approach to SRI investment, 41% are adopting sustainable investment practices due to government policies, an increase ...

SAP: sustainability for innovation as well as cost reduction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... is SAP Carbon Impact. The new addition to the solution set is an SAP Environmental Compliance and SAP Manufacturing Integration. We call it now energy management solution, which is an on-premise offering which integrates seamlessly into the SAP core ...

Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining names director

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... University for Peace (Costa Rica). CSRM founding director, David Brereton, will become SMI deputy director - research integration, leading the NextMine and NextWorkforce strategic initiatives. These programs will integrate SMI's existing capacity to ...