Company achievements
Awards
2008
Banksia Built Environment Award received for Trevor Pearcey House from the Banksia Environmental Foundation Awards
2008
Infinity Award presented to the Australian Ethical Retail Superannuation Fund for the most environmentally and socially conscious fund
2007
Six-star Green Star Certified Rating by the Green Building Council of Australia
2007
Overall winner of Keep Australia Beautiful 2007 ACT Sustainable Cities Awards
Resource Recovery Award received for Trevor Pearcey House from the national Australian Sustainable Cities Awards
2005
Award for continued high-quality sustainability reporting for a small to medium-sized organisation, received from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants Australia and New Zealand Awards
2005
Balanced Trust won Standard & Poor’s Australian Fund Award in the Balanced Funds – Neutral category
2002
Banksia Socially Responsible Investment Award received from the Banksia Foundation Environmental Awards
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Other recognitions
2007
First runner up for Best SME Report at the CR Reporting Awards 2007
2007
Special commendation for the Szencorp Green Building Award at the United Nations Association of Australia World Environment Day Awards
2003
Finalist for Leadership in Socially Responsible Investment category of the Banksia Foundation Environment Awards
2003
Commendation for Sustainability Reporting at the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants Australia and New Zealand Awards
Affiliations
Climate Friendly
Australian Ethical is recognised by Climate Friendly as a climate neutral business for neutralising emissions from electricity use, travel, gas use and any other direct greenhouse emission, achieving 100% climate neutrality.
Australian Ethical is a signatory investor of the CDP, which is a not-for-profit organisation that aims to create relationship and dialogue between shareholders and corporations in regards to the implications for shareholder value and commercial operations presented by climate change (CDP 2007).
Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA)
Australian Ethical is a certified fund manager under RIAA's Responsible Investment Certification Program, which is a program that identifies products and services that take environmental, social, ethical or governance issues into account (RIAA 2007).
UN Principles for Responsible Investment
Australian Ethical is a signatory investor of the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), which aims 'to help integrate consideration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues by institutional investors into investment decision-making and ownership practices, and thereby improve long term returns to beneficiaries’ (PRI 2007).
Association for Sustainable & Responsible Investment in Asia (ASrIA)
Australian Ethical is a founding member of ASrIA – ‘a not for profit, membership association dedicated to promoting corporate responsibility and sustainable investment practice in the Asia Pacific region’ (ASrIA 2007).
Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia Limited (ASFA)
Australian Ethical Superannuation is a member of ASFA, which is ‘a non-profit, non-political national organisation whose mission is to protect, promote and advance the interests of Australia’s superannuation funds, their trustees and their members’ (ASFA 2007).
Australian Employers Network on Disability
Australian Ethical is a member of the Australian Employers Network on Disability, 'a not for profit organisation funded by its members to take a leadership role in advancing employment for people with disability’ (AEND 2007).
Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
Australian Ethical is an Organizational Stakeholder of GRI, ‘a multi-stakeholder governed institution collaborating to provide the global standards in sustainability reporting’ (GRI 2008).
Investment & Financial Services Association Limited (IFSA)
Australian Ethical is a full member of IFSA, 'a national not-for-profit organisation which represents the retail and wholesale funds management, superannuation and life insurance industries’ (IFSA 2007).
IPS Worldwide
Australian Ethical is a client organisation of IPS Worldwide, 'a human resource, risk management and health services company providing high quality human capital solutions to leading organisations' (IPS Worldwide 2007).