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RIAA designs Responsible Returns consumer website

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2016  |  NEWS
The Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) has designed a website to match retail investors and financial advisers with responsible and ethical products to meet their profile. Simon O'Connor, RIAA CEO The site, Responsible Returns, matches ...

BHP Billiton ESG downgrade prompts asset owner questions: MSCI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2016  |  NEWS
... controversy flag." Vernon noted that since the Samarco incident, MSCI has spoken with BHP Billiton more than five times to verify data disclosed by BHP Billiton. "When trying to assess the overall context - BHP Billiton is a massive company - we looked ...

Corporate governance, quality linked as investment factors: Northern Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2016  |  NEWS
... development of optimised portfolios for clients. Northern Trust has also assessed environmental, social and governance (ESG) data as part of its research and factor-based portfolio construction, and clients in the US, Europe and Asia Pacific are interested ...

Red Meat Advisory Council developing sustainability framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016  |  NEWS
... while water use is a concern in Australia. RMAC's SSG is currently conducting a three month public consultation and gathering data to determine where the industry currently stands regarding the themes and indicators. That will result in a report next ...

BetaShares launches global cybersecurity exchange traded fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2016  |  NEWS
... as FireEye. Cybersecurity is routinely cited as a high priority governance issue in Australian and global companies, with data breaches in companies such as US-based Target and J.P. Morgan resulting in privacy compromises of customer information and ...

Investors have "no place to hide" from climate change impacts: BlackRock

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2016  |  NEWS
... said. "Regulatory risks are harder to see because you you don't know what they are until they turn up. But where you can get data - for example, you look at CDP data, which has companies provide data on areas like where they see risks and opportunities ...

BNP Paribas Securities Services becomes PRI Signatory

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2016  |  NEWS
... and performance at BNP Paribas Securities Services, previously told The Sustainability Report that ESG Risk Analytics uses data from Thomson Reuters, covering 5,000 companies around the world with more than 750 data points on various environmental, social ...

ACSI report finds ASX100 CEO base pay decreases

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2016  |  NEWS
... the decline in ASX200 CEOs has been even greater - 4.6%, or an average of AU$1.51 million before bonuses and shares. This data comes from ACSI's 15 th annual study of CEO Pay in ASX 200 Companies, as conducted by Ownership Matters. The report also found ...

Climate Bond Initiative releases climate performance data for buildings

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2016  |  NEWS
The Climate Bonds Initiative has released emissions performance trajectory data for commercial offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Canberra. The data sets can be used to assess whether office buildings, proposed developments ...

AMP Capital, CSIRO back renewable energy tech startup Evergen

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2016  |  NEWS
... to buy grid electricity that morning." The Evergen technology is based on a CSIRO algorithm that synthesises a variety of data. "The algorithm takes in a whole bunch of information - weather as well as people's use within their homes, and from that particular ...