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New Forests launches ESG investment performance framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... Sustainable Landscape Investment model, is being implemented across all of the company's investment programs, and is linked to material environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues within each area. New Forests has also applied impact reporting ...

Impact Investing Australia launches guide to define social costs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2016  |  NEWS
... included two examples - teen motherhood and homelessness as two applied examples. The framework is designed to organise material in such a way as to present data and analysis to a variety of stakeholders - the social services providers, government bodies ...

Mirvac to build industrial estate with sustainability features

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2016  |  NEWS
... retrofitting their older industrial estates with energy and water-efficiency measures, but some aspects, like building material, are a function of improving processes that can't necessarily be retrofitted. "We are going back to a lot of our existing ...

Nordea joins Corporate Human Rights Benchmark

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
Nordea Asset Management has joined the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark (CHRB) as the initiative works to publish its first pilot benchmark this year. CHRB has developed draft indicators that will be used to rank companies on their human rights performance. ...

Can sustainability considerations drive corporate innovation?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
... spurred by developments like ASX Corporate Governance Principle 7.4, which recommends that listed companies should disclose material environmental, social and economic issues. "One of the other areas where we're starting to see an increase is in that ...

Six Australian companies get gold in RobecoSAM yearbook

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
... gold medals. RobecoSAM noted that 2'126 companies from 42 countries were assessed on their performance in financially material ESG criteria for the Sustainability Yearbook 2016, and 77 RobecoSAM Gold Class medals were awarded. "Since creating it 17 years ...

Altius Sustainable Bond Fund certified by RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
The Altius Sustainable Bond Fund has been accredited by the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) as a responsible investment fund. Gavin Goodhand, senior portfolio manager, Altius Asset Management The Altius Sustainable Bond Fund was ...

Panel discussion: Investing and human rights

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... reputational issues that our clients are trying to manage, when they're looking at human rights and that's leaking into material risks as well. When you talk about thinks like corruption and instability, that starts to impact the operations and value ...

NZ Super publishes white paper on ESG beliefs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund (NZ Super) believes that by identifying and managing material environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors, it is allocating its capital "towards more attractive areas and better manag[ing] long term risk." ...

Sustainability reporting improving, room to grow: WBCSD

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
Companies are improving the effectiveness of their non-financial reporting, but they need to improve the quality of disclosures for sustainability reporting to reach its full potential, according to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development ...