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LGS ESG sovereign debt strategy includes green bond tilt

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... cohesive societies, with less chance of riots and uprisings." Since the mandate commenced in March, it has beaten its benchmark, but Hartnett cautions that two months is not a particularly long track record. More than AU$3bn of LGS's funds under management ...

Disruptive innovation, ESG factors pose media sector risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... high as they have been at the moment." The lack of disclosure and the lack of disclosure standards mean it is hard to benchmark companies on their ethical conduct, Carlsson-Sweeny said. Furthermore, the risk of regulatory change is a further uncertainty ...

SAP: sustainability for innovation as well as cost reduction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
SAP, the business management software provider, has integrated sustainability metrics into its corporate strategy for both internal cost reductions and as a source of corporate innovation, using a stakeholder body of executives and customers to gather ...

LGS audit finds ASX has higher carbon, lower ESG risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... Hartnett 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 ...

Sustainable workforce a material corporate issue

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... better place because we talk about it openly and we talk about it as something to do." It is difficult to generalise or benchmark workforce sustainability indicators, because they can be specific to the business, Margery said. "You have got to look at ...

SAM targets 2,500 companies for sustainability assessment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2012  |  NEWS
SAM, the responsible investment boutique firm, has sent letters to the 2,500 largest companies in the world to take part in the SAM Corporate Sustainability Assessment, the basis for inclusion in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI). The corporate ...

Australian Ethical funds post mixed month for February

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... Australian Ethical's Smaller Companies Trust had the highest returns for the moth, with a 4.5% return, underperforming the benchmark ASX Small Industrials index, which gained 8.5% per cent. Australian Ethical pointed to the strong performance of regenerative ...

Investors weigh meaning of social return on investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... its utility is limited as a means of weighing prospective investments against each other, and may be dangerous as a benchmark. SROI is a metric that takes into account seven principles - stakeholder involvement, an understanding what changes as part ...

GRESB joins forces with GRI to push sustainability reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012  |  NEWS
The Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) will partner with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), a move designed to advance the standardisation of reporting on environmental, social and economic performance in the global real estate ...

Voluntary sustainability disclosures carry legal weight

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... about GHG emissions in a standardised way," Philips said. "Companies saw more and more value in disclosure, in having a benchmark to measure itself against others and measure others against this standard. What then also grew out of that from a legal ...