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Investors demanding better corporate ESG disclosure: EY

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
... decision making process, but nearly two thirds of respondents to an EY survey said that companies do not adequately disclose material environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks. Matthew Bell, EY Oceania climate change and sustainability leader ...

AMP Capital hire Kristen Le Mesurier

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
... investment teams. The team also actively engages with companies and other stakeholders on a range of ESG issues, which are material to AMP Capital as a major Australian and international asset manager. The appointment continues AMP Capital's strong history ...

Origin Energy endorses We Mean Business commitments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
Origin Energy has endorsed all seven of the the CDP/We Mean Business climate leadership platform commitments. James Day, director, CDP Australia and New Zealand The seven CDP/We Mean Business 'Commit to Action' climate leadership commitments are benchmarks ...

VicSuper publishes annual report using GRI, IR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
... the structure of the report to its strategic plan, which means that the fund's strategies are further aligned to its material issues, Simpson said. "We've very much broken up the sections of the report to talk about each of the pillars in the IR framework," ...

Board skills matrix an assessment opportunity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
... better. That's an investment narrative- if you don't get that narrative right, you're just putting out a whole lot of material that is a lot of busy work and very much a tick-a-box exercise." There will be a degree of standardisation as companies adapt. ...

Westpac, Stockland named DJSI industry leaders

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2015  |  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 ...

US pension suit points to potential fiduciary risks: MinterEllison

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2015  |  NEWS
... considerations, but they demonstrate the way in which factors like climate change have "evolved to potentially have a material impact on a fund's financial risk and return," and failure to consider environmental, social and governance (ESG) drivers may ...

EY appoints new climate change and sustainability leader

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015  |  NEWS
... took effect this financial year, which specify disclosures on environmental, social and sustainability risks that are material to a company. "The real leaders in this space understand there is capacity to create value from this in the long-term, which ...

Human rights considerations part of trustee board obligations

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
When industry superannuation fund HESTA announced that it had divested from its holdings in Transfield Services, it cited social governance concerns that, in their view, represented an unacceptable risk to members' future retirement savings for the ...

Telstra publishes 2015 Sustainability Report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... and strategic in our approach to the environment," the report said. "We're doing this by identifying and minimising the material impacts of our operations, working with our suppliers to improve their environmental performance and using our products and ...