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The search for better social metrics to value affordable housing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... don't capture that whole picture," he said. "While we can measure jobs and dollars easily, it's hard to catch that qualitative improvement at their live or their reduced hospital spend or welfare costs. We never get to see that." Housing providers are ...

Conduct risk a concern for financial services sector: Ausbil

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2016  |  NEWS
... he explained. The issue of conduct risk is intrinsically linked to corporate culture, which, as an intangible, is a qualitative analytical assessment, but making the assessment proactively can provide potential rewards both in terms of risk avoidance ...

Sustainability reporting improving, room to grow: WBCSD

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... integral part of performance management. "The disclosure of non-financial information based on reliable data along with qualitative and contextual information, drives improved decision-making and helps provide a more accurate valuation of companies leading ...

APRA adds materiality to trustees' risk management declaration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... Industry (Supervision) Act (SIS Act), El Hassan has previously told The Sustainability Report. "It comes down to a qualitative and quantitative assessment of the impact of climate related risks - including the increasing number of divestment decisions ...

Net Balance: sustainability assurance increase in ASX200

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... both standards in conjunction "taking advantage of both the rigorous data analysis provided by the ASAE3000 and the qualitative depth offered by the AA1000," Net Balance said in the report. Net Balance also found "most common level of assurance provided ...

ESG integration into quantitative investment management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... "...[W]e build a SmartBeta portfolio we're happy with. The ESG information that comes to us in the form of both a qualitative designation - pass, partial pass, fail, worst in class - as well as a numerical score. We take the portfolio positions, and ...

PRI: ESG factors material to sovereign bond creditworthiness

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... analysed as a separate category rather than being subsumed under political risk, and assessed with a variety of data and qualitative information." The paper also examined how social factors can play into evaluating credit worthiness - for example, when ...

Applying multiple capitals essential to integrated reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... measure all capitals - many of the uses and impact on the capitals are best reported - or can only be reported - in a qualitative, narrative form, the ACCA paper said. 'CFOs and Boards have tended to privilege information which can be quantified, focus ...

Australian companies weigh in on Integrated Reporting pilot

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... with the auditing group and the assurance group on what that could look like," she said. "It's about bridging the qualitative or strategic process of AA1000 with the rigor of a financial audit, because they produce different value processes for a company. ...

Developing methods for monitoring impact investment returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... incorporate some of those into our reporting." Measuring social and environmental impacts have by and large have been a qualitative process, said Helga Birgden, head of responsible investment, Asia-Pacific at Mercer. "A feature of the various impact ...