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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 ...

Fund management bodies oppose ASX share placements proposal

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) and the Financial Services Council (FSC) are opposing a proposal by the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) to allow small to mid-cap companies to issue discounted new shares to investors via placements. ...

SAP: sustainability for innovation as well as cost reduction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... sustainability for SAP Australia and New Zealand. This sustainability strategy has seen SAP feature in the Dow Jones Sustainability index for five consecutive years, Zwissler said. Part of SAP's corporate strategy is to explicitly channel stakeholder ...

LGS audit finds ASX has higher carbon, lower ESG risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... The audits show that the ASX is more carbon intensive - in terms of CO2 emissions/revenue - than the MSCI World benchmark index, with a score of 297 tonnes versus 243 tonnes, based on the fact that the ASX is heavily exposed to the energy, materials ...