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Solomon Islands implement EITI payment disclosure standard

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
The Solomon Islands will implement the global Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative Standard (EITI), meaning the government will disclose payments from its extractives sector. The Solomon Islands has established Solomon Islands Extractive Industries ...

Investor Profile: Omega Global Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... demographic makeup of the country, labour market freedoms, and on the governance side it's things like financial transparency, the level of corruption, how fair the judicial/penal system is, respect for political and civil rights. That goes along side ...

LGS ESG sovereign debt strategy includes green bond tilt

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... Hartnett, head of sustainability at LGS. "You can direct attention into certified green products. It's as much about transparency as anything else. You know where your money goes." Because the mandate is constructed to reduce risks from ESG signals and ...

AusLSA to provide access to environmental measurement tool

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... tool. "We anticipate that by making it easier to report we will encourage more members to report, thus increasing the transparency and accountability of the environmental impacts of the legal sector," Wilson said. "Rather than using static spreadsheets ...

Australia in top ten for GRI sustainability reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... countries where stock exchanges, governments and other regulators encouraging increased sustainability reporting and transparency. According to the GRI, in 2007, Sweden required that all state-owned companies to report sustainability performance via ...

Skills shortage in oil and gas sector a material ESG risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... least well positioned. We encourage investors and O&G companies to have an open dialogue on this issue and to improve transparency on human capital management in order to sustainably support future development and prevent major accidents that could endanger ...

Investors weigh meaning of social return on investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... understanding what changes as part of the scope, using financial proxies for indicators of materiality, not overclaiming, transparency and verification. It can be used as a metric of value creation. The AU$575m Christian Super superannuation fund has ...

Fund manager: remuneration reports filled with "mumbo jumbo"

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... Morgan also called upon fund managers, superannuation funds and government agencies to increase their disclosure and transparency. "It makes no sense to me that while listed companies are aggressively held to account on corporate governance and disclosure ...

Companies should present negative sustainability performance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... talking about experienced reporters. Stakeholders expressed those emotions because of concerns relating to the lack of transparency and balance, the lack of targets, and the lack of focus on material issues of the organisation. "A lack of trust in the ...

Q&A with James Gifford, executive director of the UNPRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... does allow asset owners to look more carefully at their investments and RI activities. We also have the mandatory transparency elements coming out next year, which means a portion of the reporting framework will be published automatically to the public. ...