| 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 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). |
| Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) |
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). |
| 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. |
| Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) |
Australian Ethical is an Organisational 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). |
| 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). |
