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Managing regulatory impacts priority for CSR practitioners

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... CSR can actually create new opportunities for them - and meet consumer desires for more environmentally and socially responsible products and services." More than two-thirds of respondents selected "managing regulatory impacts" as a high or very high ...

GESB Super to drop responsible investment option

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... based investment options," said GESB Acting-CEO, Larry Rudman. "When GESB first established its discrete socially responsible investment option in 2007, Australian share managers were not as focussed on ESG principles as they are today. Now, most fund ...

Perpetual creating dashboard ESG reports

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... Although this process - and Berrutti's role - is relatively new to the organisation, Perpetual has experience in socially responsible management through its Perpetual Ethical SRI offering. "We have an ethical fund and that's been around for about a decade," ...

Australia to pilot Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... ethical behaviour. "It may seem difficult to demonstrate the financial value to a company of behaving in a socially responsible manner, especially in a context where regulations may be less demanding than they are in developed countries, and where investments ...

Consumers doubt energy retailers' "green" credentials

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... problem for retailers, though, is the fact that only 13.2% of respondents believe the sustainability and socially responsible messages that electricity providers portray on their website and marketing. Nearly half - 47.8% - reported a neutral response ...

Mercer's global head of responsible investment business recognised

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... institutions, investment firms, financial advisors, and various organizations and individuals interested in socially responsible investment. It promotes the practice of socially responsible investment (SRI) in Canada. Ambachtsheer established Mercer's ...

Colonial First State Global Asset Management reports on responsible investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... to work with, "For asset managers, there really isn't anything else," McCluskey said. "If we were selling socially responsible or ethical products, we could get external certification for those products, but we don't do that. Our approach is to consider ...

MSCI launches 25 new ESG indices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... including indices that exclude holdings in manufacturers of controversial weapons and indices built around socially responsible investments. The new indices include 11 regional and country-level specific indices. MSCI highlighted the MSCI Global ex Controversial ...

Integrated reporting - should ASX follow in South Africa's footsteps?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... Guidelines of the GRI, the principles of the UN Global Compact, the guidance provided in ISO 26000 and the JSE Socially Responsible Investment Index criteria. The organisation should discern which elements of the reporting standards and frameworks will ...

PRI hires Rob Lake as director of strategic development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... funded by MISTRA, the Swedish government environmental research agency, and the Advisory Group to the Chair in Socially Responsible Investment at the Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, and the University of Toulouse "Rob's experience will be extremely valuable ...