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Bradbury highlights corporate ESG reporting inconsistencies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... their performance against meaningful metrics, particularly institutional investors and the growing retail market for "ethical" and "sustainable" superannuation funds. To that end, Bradbury pointed to the International Integrated Reporting Committee's ...

Investors weigh environmental, social risks of coal seam gas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... the question about the chemicals themselves." The environmental concerns over damage to the water supply led Australian Ethical Investments to divest itself of its holdings in Origin in October. Australian Ethical Investments had a AU$10m holding in ...

Australia to pilot Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... organisation's ownership for the impacts of its decisions and activities on society and the environment, through transparent and ethical behaviour. "It may seem difficult to demonstrate the financial value to a company of behaving in a socially responsible ...

Using ESG factors to broaden fixed income analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... fund is a multimanager fund. AMP Capital provides the review of the holdings from an ESG perspective, and the fund has an ethical charter which stipulates which companies shouldn't be in there. In some respects, that's the starting point of that anal ...

Governance, environmental issues for AGM season

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... resolutions to be proposed by the the Climate Advocacy Shareholder Group, which was founded by fund manager Australian Ethical Investment. Earlier this year, the Climate Advocacy Shareholder Group tabled a resolution at Woodside Petroleum Ltd' s AGM ...

Microfinance a source of financial and social return

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... is mindful of the fact that investing in microfinance has reputational risks as well for the fund - both financial and ethical. "There are two main reputational risks - one is that we make a bad investment call," he said. "When we look at non-traditional ...

Apparel industry exposed to social risk in supply chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... South East Asia and at home, and companies and their investors should be concerned because of the real threat from both an ethical and a financial perspective, according to AMP Capital. Because many Australian retailers have transformed to brand owners ...

Fuji Xerox Australia reports waste reduction, increase in injury rates

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... sold was recycled or certified and that 93% of parts and equipment manufactures were compliant with the parent company's ethical procurement programme. On the health and safety side, in 2010/2011 the company reviewed its health and safety management ...

PRI signatories develop farmland principles

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... and human rights (Principle 2) Respecting existing land and resource rights (Principle 3) Upholding high business and ethical standards (Principle 4) Reporting on activities and progress towards implementing and promoting the Principles (Principle 5) ...

James Thier retires from Australian Ethical

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
James Thier, a founding director of Australian Ethical Investment, has retired from the company as of last week. Australian Ethical is a fund manager with AU$650m in assets under management, specialising in ethical and sustainable investment since its ...