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UCA Funds Management adds Nine Entertainment Company to exclusions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2016  |  NEWS
... companies, alcohol and sometimes one other organisation, and then you've got the associated advertorial as well. That's a material exposure in the major products. We know [Nine] is the market leader, we know the industry average, and the rest of the ...

Impax Asset Management analyses environmental impact of portfolio

PIA LEFEVRE  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2016  |  NEWS
Impax Asset Management has calculated that its Specialists Strategy produces net carbon reductions of 11,200 tonnes of CO2 per £10 million (AU$17 million) invested in 2015. Bruce Jenkyn-Jones, managing director and co-head of listed equities, Impax ...

Westpac, Stockland named DJSI group industry leaders

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2016  |  NEWS
... DJSI is a global index that tracks leading sustainability-driven companies based on RobecoSAM's analysis of financially material environmental, social and governance (ESG factors). Each year, RobecoSAM invites the largest 3,400 companies from developed ...

EY, UN Global Compact evaluate state of sustainable supply chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2016  |  NEWS
... engagement," Jeyaretnam said. "Companies have thousands of suppliers in diverse sectors and geographies, so a prioritisation of material impacts, risks and opportunities is required to identify the suppliers to target with the limited resources that ...

Banks, fund managers developing ethical cash products

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2016  |  NEWS
... the portfolio will not hold corporate debt from fossil fuel companies or convertible notes from companies that derive material business from gambling, another area of exclusion. "I think investors that wish to invest ethically would like, where possible ...

NZ Super earns A+ in UNPRI benchmark report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2016  |  NEWS
... responsible investment as a way to control risk and a source of investment opportunities," he said. "We believe it is material to long-term financial returns." NZ Super's ongoing priorities in the ESG space include continuing to engage with NZX listed ...

BlackRock presses case for better ESG disclosures for investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... information can be "meaningfully accretive to fundamental financial and investment analysis, the paper states. Management of material environmental and social impacts is a signal of the company's management and its long term sustainability. But while ...

Natural Capital Protocol launched worldwide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
A coalition of global stakeholders have launched the Natural Capital Protocol, a framework designed to assist companies in measuring and valuing use of and impact on natural capital. Andrew Petersen, CEO, Sustainable Business Australia The Natural Capital ...

Cbus signs Global Statement on Investor Obligations and Duties

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... our approach," he said. The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) requires superannuation funds to disclose material risks and how they manage them, but leaves it up the discretion of the funds to determine materiality. The statement will ...

90% of ASX200 companies report on sustainability: ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... component company reporting at "leading" standard, demonstrating that environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues are material to all sectors, said Louise Davidson, ACSI CEO. "I think one of the excuses we used to get from companies in some sectors ...