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Gaps in retailers' labour and human rights policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... retail companies that source from similar factories and can also pose business risks in terms of production delays and quality issues. According to the ACSI research, the sub-sectors that are most likely to be sourcing from locations that have exposures ...

Ernst Ligteringen: G4 and the third industrial revolution

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
The newest version of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) reporting standards will improve the quality of ESG disclosures, but governments and regulators need to foster a level playing field in which at least large companies are disclosing sustainability ...

Barclays and MSCI launch ESG Fixed Income Indices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... financial performance," Nishikawa said. "It's possible that an improving ESG signal may tell you something about management quality. We wanted to tell that story - the third category of indices are not just going overweight on the strong performers ...

IIRC CEO favours market-led adoption of Integrated Reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... creates value, a breakdown of silos within the organisations and that Integrated Reporting helped to facilitate better quality data collection and timeliness, Druckman said. "The more that mature organisations are doing Integrated Reporting, the more ...

Fund managers assess retailers' risks in Bangladesh

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... Plaza can pose a reputational risk to the companies, but can also pose business risks in terms of production delays and quality issues. Although Australian retailers on their own can't solve the problem of worker safety and conditions, experts say they ...

Ethinvest model portfolios outperform wider ASX indices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... cyclical and have underperformed over the period. It is a bias that has helped. But it also reflects that there are some good quality sustainable companies in the ASX100 and ASX50. Some of the healthcare companies don't pay great dividends, but they ...

ACSI names leaders, laggards in ESG reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... ESG reporting is something that companies need to think about rather than just do as a tick-box exercise. We think the quality is better if the company has thought about it and decided to do, rather than being mandated to do."

Superannuation funds urged to examine impact of investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... start, there's a distinct lack of intermediaries, and proper research. To date there has been a lack of institutional quality investment opportunities and so it's been hard to prove this idea, which is a theory at best, that you can get investment returns ...

CFSGAM to create global responsible investment committee

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... said CFSGAM's Global Responsible Investment Strategy had three components - building on previous efforts, improving the quality of the investment process to include a better sense of the impact of ESG factors in the long term, and measuring those impacts ...

Australian boards struggling with climate change adaptation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... "Again, at the higher end, the more sophisticated companies seemed to have a better understanding, which we put down to the quality of the directors. We found that there was more board diversity of those transnationals, as opposed to others, with gender ...