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PRI members push CSR movement

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
... strategies. The principles provide a framework of widely accepted standards for firms to use in their management of environmental, social and governance issues (ESG). HESTA Super fund, Care Super, ARIA and Statewide Superannuation Trust are the local ...

GRI sets up Australian base

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2008
Investment analysts and responsible investors will gain access to more information on a company's economic, environmental and social performance after the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) announced it's collaborating with the St James Ethics Centre. ...

PRI toolkit hits the market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2008
... tools named EIRisk, Global Compact Engager and Report Monitor. EIRisk covers principle one or the incorporation of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues into investment analysis. It describes the layers of risk within each company to make ...

AMP wins $42m SRI mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2008
... equities manager] after their team left late last year," said Macready. Macready commended AMP for their "very strong" environmental, social and governance principles which has been the key motivator of the mandate. "We've gone into [AMP's] SRI process ...

UN launches PRI think tank

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2008
... provide academics and practitioners with a platform to collaborate more closely around areas such as impacts of environmental, social and governance (ESG) integration," said Gifford. Rob Bauer, ECCE director, said the conference and academic network ...

Euro SRI market hits $4 trillion

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2008
... more than $3.8 trillion, referring to three institutional strategies across exclusions, engagement and integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) risk into financial analysis. The report also found SRI assets under management had grown 102 ...

Managers seek ESG framework

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2008
Effectively managing and pricing environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues into investment processes remains the biggest hurdle for integration. Speaking at the Responsible Investment Association of Australasia (RIAA) conference yesterday, Ian ...

ESG buck stops with super

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2008
Better and broader environmental, social and governance (ESG) research will occur when the major players high on the 'supply chain' such as super funds demand it, according to John Coombe, JANA executive director. Speaking at the Responsible Investment ...

Symantec ramps up CSR

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2008
... energy consumption to designing 'green' buildings, Symantec joins the growing list of companies articulating their environmental policies - all mapped out in its first ever corporate responsibility report released this year. Among the group's key corporate ...

Game on for sustainability

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2008
... Group make up the index' largest weightings. To be included on the index, companies must meet FTSE's criteria across environmental practices, climate change mitigation, countering bribery, upholding human and labour rights and appropriate chain labour ...