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Showing 11 - 20 of 22 results for "Corporate Social Responsibility"

Symantec ramps up CSR

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2008
... out in its first ever corporate responsibility report released this year. Among the group's key corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives this year include consolidating Symantec's data centre to gain energy savings of more than 300,000 kWh/month. ...

GES and Limestone launch Eastern Europe SRI fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2008
... capital and we think they will therefore deliver above-average returns to investors." She said corporate social responsibility in Eastern European market was gaining traction after structural reforms and required or expected compliance with European ...

Governance before crisis

... social capacities that are emerging through Australia's superannuation system. Issues such as corporate social responsibility and environmental awareness should be taken into consideration when stylising governance strategies. "[Corporate governance] ...

Governments lag on CSR

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2007
... from market research company Opinion Leaders shows investor groups are far more supportive of corporate social responsibility (CSR) than governments, especially regarding policies on carbon emissions. However, the report, which surveyed 750 private shareholders ...

Sustainable investing eclipses SRI

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2007
... largely in the extraction industries, on the basis of often fuzzy criteria promulgated by the corporate social responsibility movement. "These early approaches tended to force an unacceptable trade-off between social criteria and investment returns," ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2007
... Wednesday. The Australian business community has formally acknowledged the need for increased corporate social responsibility with the Business Council of Australia chief executive Katie Lahey today presenting a such conclusions to the Australian Centre ...

Aviva goes green with carbon outputs

NICK OLIVER  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2007
... program, including sustainable agreements with suppliers, public reporting through its annual Corporate Social Responsibility Report and public presentations and papers on sound sustainable practice. "Aviva Australia already invests in environmental ...

CSA rejects compulsory governance reporting

... Chartered Securities Australia (CSA) has rejected the proposed government move to standardise corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting and/or to make it compulsory, because both solutions would merely reduce CSR to a box-ticking exercise. In a ...

ABN Amro launches ethical approach to CDOs

... mandates of institutional investors. Responsibility, Ethics, Environment, First (REEF) includes a corporate social responsibility (CSR) rating from ratings agency RepuTex based on criteria including corporate governance, workplace practices, social impact ...

Financial performance in line with corporate responsibility: AMP

... socially responsibility criteria used by AMP's Capital Sustainable Australian Share fund including corporate social responsibility (CSR) and industry sustainability (IS). Over a four to 10 year periods the research showed companies with a higher corporate ...