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Interview: Anthea McIntyre, Australian Institute of Company Directors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... expertise to guide business expansion into, say, China. It depends on the individual company. All boards will require different skill sets. Editor's note: This Q&A is derived from a longer interview. It has been condensed and edited. See Also: Women ...

FSC, ACSI release ESG reporting guide for ASX companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... framework for how companies should report ESG risks and will facilitate greater consistency and comparability of data across different companies and sectors." The reporting guide defines both the reporting parameters and the ESG issues that investors ...

Assistance will "significantly reduce" effects of carbon tax on industry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... since the release of the carbon package and it's not entirely clear the assumptions they've used. We think they've used different assumptions from us and come to a different conclusion from us." Looking beyond this analysis of EITE industries, the next ...

Social risk: the impact on the Australian cattle industry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... difficult to quantify, the regulatory impacts are more difficult to trace down because companies have risks in all sorts of different countries, there are not a lot of laws with repercussions, and on behalf of the investor, it requires a bit more of ...

Solaris Investment Management appoint ESG analyst

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... serves to collect information that the analysts receive themselves. "The information comes through form a number of different sources - broker information, information from the companies themselves, information from NGOs, any number of areas," Domagala ...

Mercer: providing education and intervention on ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... investment decision making. Helga Birgden, head of responsible investing for Asia Pacific at Mercer "We do provide a lot of different interventions if you like and a lot of education," said Helga Birgden, head of responsible investment, Asia-Pacific ...

The impact of universal owners on sustainable investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... investors benefit as free riders, Towers Watson said. "The nature of those markets and in particular the prospects for different sectors will change over time if Universal Owners are successful in getting more attention for externalities (that is, if ...

ICMM releases climate change policy paper

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... driving a particular policy mechanism or package of approaches. Importantly, it recognizes the need for respecting the different cultural, social, political, economic and physical environments around the world and a country's different priorities (for ...

Integrating ESG to enhance quantitative-style investment analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... and investment performance is overall fairly strong, looking at the historic track record," Fryer noted. "A number of different studies are showing positive results. Good ESG performance can have lower risk and a better beta, which can be important in ...

GRI releases airport operator sector guidance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... operators, offering a framework for reporting risks like wildlife strikes, noise and human trafficking. "Airports face many different sustainability challenges compared to other sectors, including noise, human trafficking and wildlife strikes," said ...