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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 ...

Japanese pension plan selects MSCI ESG index as benchmark

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
One of Japan's largest public pension plans will use the MSCI Japan ESG Index as the benchmark for a passive mandate, according to MSCI. The National Federation of Mutual Aid Associations for Municipal Personnel, which has more than JPY 8tr in assets ...

FTSE launch carbon risk indices for Australia, Europe and Japan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... equity strategies in light of future carbon risks, while maintaining close performance tracking of the underlying FTSE benchmark." Launched in December 2011, the series takes an established FTSE index and evaluates each company within the index to identify ...

IGCC and others launch second global investor survey

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
The Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) and two other climate change investor groups have launched a global investor survey that will include a new, comprehensive assessment of low-carbon investments. IGCC, in conjunction with the European Institutional ...

LGS select MSCI for ESG and carbon research, monitoring

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... will be able to regularly measure and monitor the aggregate ESG exposure of a portfolio and compare that exposure to a benchmark ESG index." See Also: LGS uses trigeneration technology for property retrofit Investor Profile: Local Government Super Integrating ...

Institutional investors put climate change into risk budget

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... "They found the total carbon footprint of our 10 Australian equity managers was approximately the same as the ASX300 benchmark. We also performed a carbon valuation analysis on the AustralianSuper Australian equities portfolio based on external valuation ...