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Net Balance certified as a B Corporation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... suppliers, community and the environment against standards for social and environmental performance, accountability and transparency. "We've known about the movement for a couple of years now, and we started about mid-last year to pursue the certification ...

A view on Woolworths' corporate responsibility report

JOSH DOWSE  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... 4% of Australia's total, and hold just 6% of Australia's poker machines. These figures alone raise questions about transparency. For example, would an average Woolworths hotel therefore have 1.5 times more poker machines than the Australian average ...

NAB Asset Servicing developing ESG overlay tool

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... administrative services to institutional investors, recently launched FundEdge, a reporting platform designed to provide data transparency. At the moment, FundEdge provides reporting solutions including counterparty exposure reporting and asset allocation ...

Mercer study to investigate shareholder loyalty rewards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... report would make its analysis with the understanding that the overarching context is on ensuring that governance, transparency and scrutiny is not undermined. "The governance process is already something that is work in process and you don't want it ...

Net Balance and ECO-Buy in sustainability service merger

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... and economics. The merger comes at a time where there is a global push from a variety of outlets to bring increased transparency to how organisations manage their supply chain. "The [Dow Jones Sustainability Index] DJSI changed its rules in the last ...

Local Government Super leader on managing climate risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... manage climate risk. Australia's Local Government Super (LGS) was ranked the top institutional asset onwer for its transparency and management plan, with South Africa's Government Employees Pension Fund second, CareSuper third, the Dutch Stichting Pensioenfonds ...

Sustainable development and Australia in the Asian Century

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... that have respected, reliable, credible responses to sustainability challenges. This is where companies that have transparency regarding sustainability challenges come in. We see that in the supply chain. We see that from companies getting questions ...

Trustees exposed to legal risk over climate change impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... funds have joined with initiatives such as the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) to lobby corporations for greater transparency about carbon emissions, the funds themselves have failed to disclose their portfolios' carbon liabilities or institute strategies ...

CDP: increased water risk awareness, lagging board response

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... responding to them is varied and in many cases insufficient. We need to see greater corporate accountability through more transparency, concrete targets and goals and board level oversight of water-related issues." Six Australian companies were invited ...

Operational changes needed to strengthen AGM voting: ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... changes that split the record date and the lodgement date." The report makes several recommendations to bring greater transparency, security and integrity to the voting chain. There is currently a coincidence of time for the determination of vote entitlements ...