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Crowe Horwath: sustainability as competitive advantage

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... community groups because of the way they have grown and they have interesting stories of how to manage stakeholder engagement and understand the demands of the social groups, and how they can establish links between environment and social aspects." Not ...

Mercer: ESG as source of innovation in shifting economy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... subject with their invested companies, Ambachtsheer said. "You have started to see in North America, for example, more engagement with oil and gas companies about using capital to look for more oil reserves," she explained. "They're asking companies ...

AMP Capital increases focus on corporate succession planning

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... they come in to talk about the remuneration report or the upcoming AGM, and we ask them about leadership, employee engagement and succession planning," she said. "They'll usually say they have an emergency replacement for the CEO, and they have these ...

350.org Australia issues ASX200 fossil fuel divestment study

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... which is enough capital to shift that sector to the game-changing phase." 350.org Australia will use this report as an engagement tool with institutional investors, Wood said. "We will be distributing it in our discussions and negotiations with funds," ...

NAB outlines goals in 2014 Reconciliation Action Plan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... in 2013 and outlined its 2014 commitments in their most recent RAP, which they recently launched. NAB's Indigenous engagement strategy has four areas - "promoting financial inclusion by providing greater access to financial products and services; providing ...

AustralianSuper equities less carbon-intense than benchmarks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... exposed to embedded carbon stores than their benchmark indices." The reports will be used as part of AustralianSuper's engagement activities, which is embedded in the fund's approach to integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues into ...

AMP Capital busts ESG myths

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... and decision making can provide insights into how companies manage their exposures. AMP Capital has focused on key engagement themes with invested companies including supply chain management/human rights, climate change, improved ESG disclosure, coal ...

South Australia introduces building upgrade finance bill

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... legislation," Bocskay said. "[T]he proposed legislation enables flexibility as how project proposals can deal with their engagement with tenants, and it uses the leverage test, which appears in the Victorian, but not the New South Wales, legislation. ...

Supply chain, G4, social value to top sustainability agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... there is ongoing interest in valuation of sustainability-related work is the value of social investments and community engagement. Jeyaretnam said they had clients that are interested in value measurements of their social investment and their social ...

Addis, Blackburn-Wright open impact investment firm

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... Blackburn-Wright and Addis have opened their organisation, IMPACT Investing Australia with the mission of coordinating engagement with stakeholders in the impact investing sector - the financial intermediaries, the investors, and the social enterprises ...