Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR) has developed a platform for superannuation fund members to learn more about their funds stance on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. Find out more about your fund in terms of its responsible investment industry body memberships, how it discloses its ESG policies and how it votes on ESG-related resolutions. This information is correct as at May 2018.
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What this means
UN Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI) member?
UNPRI members commit to 6 responsible investment principles.
Responsible Investment Association of Australia(RIAA) member?
RIAA is a ‘club’ for funds interested in Responsible Investment.
Score – how well do they tell members and potential members about their environmental, social and governance policies. 1
Most funds have policies setting out their attitude to responsible investment and proxy voting. Some don’t, some do but keep them to themselves.
Tells members and potential members how they voted on specific resolutions at AGM’s?
All funds are voting every year on resolutions dealing with environmental, social and governance issues. Some funds tell their members how they voted, others don’t.
Score – how has the fund voted recently – Australian company resolution sample 2
Vote for example, in support of an improved climate change response resolution, scores +1 vote against scores -1, abstain score 0.
Score – how has the fund voted recently – US and UK company resolution sample 3
Vote, for example, in support of an improved climate change response resolution, scores +1 vote against scores -1, abstain scores 0.
1 Scoring range is minimum 0 for having no policy to maximum 3 for having publicly available policies which set out their attitude to specific environmental, social and governance issues.
2 Scoring range is minimum -11 to maximum +11 for voting on a sample of climate change, human rights and shareholder governance rights resolutions and Australian companies in the period July 2015 to December 2017.
3 Scoring range is minimum -14 to maximum +14 for voting on a sample of climate change, consumer rights and political expenditure resolutions at US & UK companies in 2016 and 2017.
