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CPA Australia issues SME sustainability assurance guide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... SME side as well." The assurance guide follows on from another tool CPA Australia developed together with the St James Ethics Centre, the Good Business Register, which addresses sustainability reporting for SMEs. Businesses reported that in addition ...

Disruptive innovation, ESG factors pose media sector risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... additionally, there are also social and governance issues that are impacting the sector, particularly the increased focus on ethics and governance shortcomings in some boards, such as lack of independent directors. "Media companies are in a transition ...

Bradbury highlights corporate ESG reporting inconsistencies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... just how significantly social media has changed the rules of the game," Bradbury said. "...While I make no comment on the ethics or otherwise of Mr Harvey's involvement in this campaign, I think this example shows that under the new rules of the game ...

Microfinance a source of financial and social return

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... institutional investors can be counterproductive and exploitative." It is also important to note that superannuation funds invest from the core legal responsibility of providing members with the best possible risk-adjusted returns. While microfinance ...

Apparel industry exposed to social risk in supply chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... other areas for improved efficiency in the supply chains." "We're interested in looking at the ethics of the companies we invest in but there is the financial side as well," said Ian Woods, AMP Capital Investors' head of sustainable funds. "When talking ...

James Thier retires from Australian Ethical

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... money with us because they wanted to do the right thing. "The next generation saw that the returns were pretty ok and the ethics were great. The third generation, which came on in the early 2000s, are people who recognized that we were top of the pile ...

Government allocates funds to GRI Focal Point Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... Focal Point is the product of a 2008 agreement between the Global Reporting Initiative and Australian hosts the St James Ethics Centre. The Focal Point promotes world's best practice reporting of environmental, social and governance issues by Australian ...

Companies investing in sustainable operations showing returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
A study of five Australian organisations, including Blackmores and Woolworths, has shown that companies that invest in sustainable business operations and incorporate ESG factors into their financial reporting are seeing returns on investment much sooner ...