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Cambridge Institute for Sustainable Leadership to offer director program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2016  |  NEWS
The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainable Leadership (CISL) is offering a non-executive director programme for the first time in Melbourne next year, as an extension of its sustainability training programmes for corporate executives. Terence ...

BHP Billiton ESG downgrade prompts asset owner questions: MSCI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2016  |  NEWS
... BHP and distinguishing between the controversial behaviour and the ESG rating which represents more the financial and material risk that BHP is exposed to." Asset owners and managers that use MSCI ACWI and screen out red flagged companies or companies ...

VicSuper publishes 2016 annual report using IR, GRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2016  |  NEWS
... and how we can act more like a coach and get them engaged with super." VicSper's annual report identified a range of material issues, ranging to adapting to regulatory change to growing the fund amidst increasing competition, financial management and ...

Australian Ethical Investment engages on sustainability of meat

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016  |  NEWS
... Investment has joined a coalition of 40 institutional investors engaging with 16 multinational food companies over concerns of material risks posed by industrial animal production. Ella McKinley, ethics analyst, Australian Ethical Investment The Farm ...

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 ...