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NFPs must align investments with mission: Koda Capital

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... posed at investment committees of endowments at non-profits in a paper, Investing for Non-profits: Essential Questions for Board and Committee Members, which is intended to provoke leaders to address issues that will lead them to manage money more effectively. ...

Carbon Trade Exchange sells EU arm to EEM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... markets, including carbon, renewable energy certificates (RECs) and water. CTX founder Wayne Sharpe has now joined the EEM board as chairman. The transaction is expected to close in July 2015. The value of the acquisition is undisclosed. Meanwhile, CTX ...

GRI appoints Eric Dugelay to board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has appointed Eric Dugelay to its board. Dugelay, Deloitte's Global Sustainability Services leader, joins the 14-member GRI board, which consists of representatives from business and civil society organisations ...

Materiality reviews a source of strategic value: ACCSR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... Reporting Initiative's G4 framework, the International Integrated Reporting Council, and the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board. The paper is aimed at those organisations that conduct - or plan to conduct - materiality reviews. "We do a lot of ...

LGS publicly discloses proxy voting intentions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... a loss of shareholder value. The fund noted that it had voted against company proposals in past over concerns including board diversity and independence, remuneration report recommendations, sustainability reporting disclosure and climate change. LGS ...

CFSGAM reports on transparency, stewardship of assets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... assets and so receive commercially sensitive ESG information, they can also influence what ESG information is provided at board meetings. Because they have a much less diversified portfolio of investments than other asset classes they have the ability ...

Investor groups publish climate change investment guide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... IGCC and Mercer released a video training module featuring superannuation trustees and professionals acting in a trustee board meeting role-play that considers concrete steps for integrating climate change risks into their investment portfolios. "I think ...

Companies consider implications of new ASX principles

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... parts, relating to risk management and the disclosure of environmental, social and economic sustainability risks and the board skills matrix, are prompting discussion. Judith Fox, director, policy, Governance Institute Last year, ASX Group's Corporate ...

Investors integrating ESG in quant portfolios: Northern Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... the ownership structure of companies in emerging markets and being able to see the level of independence they have on the board. Do they have independent board members, are they ex-employees, are they part of subsidiaries of the companies - that gives ...

BP shareholders pass Aiming for A climate risk resolution

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... companies, and always signalled to the companies that we would file these supporting resolutions, with the hope that we would get board support. We were delighted that Shell and BP decided to support the resolutions." Shell has an "Aiming for A" resolution ...