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Chartered Accountants: sustainability core business strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
For companies to report and manage sustainability exposures for long-term value creation, they need develop strategies to improve environmental, social and governance performance. So says the Australian Institute of Chartered Accountants, which has ...

Australian and NZ companies increase community giving in 2011

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... giving into three categories- community investment, donations, and commercial initiatives. "This year has seen a strong shift away from community investment (down from 57.7% to 46.3%) to donations (up from 20.4% to 32.3%) with commercial initiatives ...

Variability in level of ASX100 supply chain disclosures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... indication that the concept of supply chain sustainability is more complex and that, as a result, many companies are yet to shift their reporting focus to look beyond the traditional boundaries of their organisation in an attempt to influence the sustainability ...

Investor groups call for climate change policy action

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... for delivering on the objectives, as well as comprehensive policies for energy, investment and financial incentives that "shift the risk reward balance in favour or low carbon assets." The report also recommends that policies are well designed and that ...

Carbon price to have limited impact on superannuation funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
The proposed carbon price would have a limited impact on superannuation funds overall, amounting to a cost of up to 0.8% of revenue from companies held in the Australian equity portfolios of 14 of the largest superannuation funds. This conclusion comes ...

James Thier retires from Australian Ethical

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... of sustainability investing has become more mainstream since 2000. "In terms of the marketplace, 2000 was clearly a big shift in ethical and sustainable investment," he said. "That was when the mainstream funds that had watched us and watched Hunter ...

Imbalances, sustainability and their impact on investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... any reason for that demand to go away? I don't have a clear answer to that, but part of the analysis would factor in the shift in the Chinese and other developing economies to a consumer economy rather than an export-led economy." But, Hodgson pointed ...

Benchmarking superannuation funds' sustainability performance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... [ESG] certainly does matter," he said. "The funds' attitudes and members' attitudes have shifted. What we're seeing now is a shift to embedding ESG principles across the entire portfolios. No doubt that the impending carbon price is going to have an ...

The impact of universal owners on sustainable investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... smaller funds. Towers Watson notes that smaller, well governed funds can follow in Universal Owners' slipstreams where they shift towards sustainable investment strategies for possible asset allocation opportunities. "[Universal Owners] are important ...

Deloitte, GRI to develop new program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... investors, auditors and other report users to access and compare GRI data more quickly and easily. "We are experiencing a major shift towards electronic information delivery," said Cees de Boer, CFO and COO of Deloitte in the Netherlands. "This development ...