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Government allocates funds to GRI Focal Point Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... hosts the St James Ethics Centre. The Focal Point promotes world's best practice reporting of environmental, social and governance issues by Australian corporations. This funding builds on the $2.59 million the Federal Government has already provided ...

Integrating ESG to enhance quantitative-style investment analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
As investors continue to realise that the way companies manage their environmental, social and governance inputs reflect potential risk as well as potential opportunity, ESG factors are being incorporated into traditional quantitative and qualitative ...

Integrated reporting - should ASX follow in South Africa's footsteps?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... connection between the organisation's strategy, its financial performance and its performance on environmental, social and governance issues," the report said in its introduction. "Much of what is currently reported tends to be backward-looking and fails ...

UN PRI rolls out mandatory fees, expanded agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... signatories to develop their expertise achieving long-term investment returns through analysis of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. "It's important that we provide the support and the resources to the Australian signatories to enable ...

PRI hires Rob Lake as director of strategic development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... better long-term investment returns and sustainable markets through improved analysis of environmental, social and governance issues. PRI has over 870 signatories from 45 countries with more than US$ 25tr of assets under management Lake comes to PRI ...

MSCI developing global Socially Responsible Indices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2011  |  NEWS
... ethical views," according to the firm. The proposed indices would target companies with high Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) ratings in comparison to sector peers and would exclude companies that are inconsistent with specific "values based ...