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Sustainalytics hires Gary Hewitt

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... previously led a research team at Watson Wyatt (now Towers Watson) and worked for nearly a decade at Institutional Shareholder Services. "With the increasingly important role ESG research is playing in investment decision-making and risk management ...

ARENA announces $100 million support for Moree Solar Farm

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... and resources focused private equity firm with more than $7.9 billion in invested and committed funds, is a majority shareholder in FRV, FRV said. See Also: AGL Energy, First Solar granted $130m for solar project

Community 21 launches share offer to raise up to AU$4m

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
Community 21, the financial services organisation that jointly owns Community Sector Banking with Bendigo and Adelaide Bank, is seeking to raise up to AU$4 million in a share offering open to non-profits. Peter Quarmby, Community 21 executive director ...

ACSI: companies paid premium for rights issue underwriting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
Companies paid a premium of more than AU$170 million for underwriting of rights issues between 2010 and 2012, according to research conducted by the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI). ACSI conducted benchmark modelling of what underwriting ...

UCA Funds Management release 2013 annual report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... said. UCA Funds Management has put both companies on its exclusion list. "They're moving on the official radar of the shareholder engagement fraternity," Walsh said. "We hope we can ultimately get some good recognition for those issues."

KPMG finds companies invest $12.2bn in social programs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
One hundred of the world's largest companies made investments in social programs valued at US$12.2 billion in 2013, but less than a third of those companies are reporting on the impact of those investments, according to a new global report by KPMG International. ...

ASIC guide widens scope of risk, future prospect disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... things are going to be where the rubber hits the road and where you can affect some change. You see that in these shareholder resolutions - the Woolworths GetUp! campaign, and the current Santos and Wilderness Society campaign. In terms of shareholder ...

Sustainability reporting a source of key business value

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... demonstrated the overall links between a strong demonstration of corporate social responsibility and positive generation of shareholder value, it is still very much necessary to make those links explicit to individual CEOs and individual companies. "The ...

Labour rights, NGO activism and governance cited as ESG trends

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... divergence between the E, the S and G and that is dangerous because it undermines E and S." Chioatto said that the rise in shareholder activism globally and in Australia has been "values based", but noted that many of the values issues are embedded in ...

BITC index ranks global companies' corporate responsibility

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014  |  NEWS
Companies that lead in corporate responsibility are linking sustainability progress with remuneration and have strong stakeholder engagement on sustainability, according to the Business in the Community (BITC) 2014 Corporate Responsibility Index. BITC ...