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Leightons under investigation over payment disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... respond to a call from The Sustainability Report as of press time. Paterson said that harmonisation of legislation in different countries around the definitions of and penalties for bribery, corruption and practices like facilitation payments was leading ...

ASX50 companies slow to adopt integrated reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... leaders in the reporting field will produce concise reports supplemented by online in-depth reports targeting the needs of different stakeholders, including live data sets online to allow stakeholders to interrogate the data to suit their needs. This ...

Finsia: ESG consistent with superannuation fiduciary duties

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
Integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into investment processes is "entirely consistent" with the fiduciary duties of superannuation trustees, the Financial Services Institute of Australasia (Finsia) said in a newly published ...

IGCC working group engages on green finance design, function

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... diligence and monitoring that brings, or by outsourcing management to third party asset managers. "There are a couple of different ways [the CEFC] can act, depending on what sort of outcomes they're looking at," Major said. "If they're looking at a big ...

ESG investment analysis - answering the "so-what" question

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... Australian businesses expansion into Asia. "It's important timing for Australian business," he said. "They have exposure to a different operating culture and different rule of law in many jurisdictions, which can lead to business activities where human ...

Superannuation to heed call for greater disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... disclosures that a fund with a sustainability or ESG mission might make. "When it comes to sustainability reporting, it's very different," Vamos said. "The different levels of ethical investing and sustainability and sustainable investing and the different ...

Integrated Reporting to generate value, costs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... the importance of providing information about long-term risks and prospects, should not be too prescriptive given the different regulatory requirements in different jurisdictions." The two bodies differed on the IIRC's utilisation of the concept of multiple ...

Share placements become governance issue for investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
Publicly listed companies should recognise existing shareholders when raising equity capital, and should disclose how a capital equity raising is priced and built and ensure that fees associated with a equity capital raising reflect value and risk ...

Reports critique ASX companies' supply chain disclosures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... "Generally speaking, business has entered and many of these companies that are leading here have recognised that they're in a different operating environment and a different world now, and everything that they can and do influence, they're being held ...

David Bradbury announces inquiry on future of the AGM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... Bradbury said in his speech. "The emergence of the IIRC has not changed this. However, we are aware that stakeholders hold different views on this topic. Many other governments, including the European Commission, are moving to mandate at least some aspects ...