Higher integration of sustainable practices for Msian listed companies

Bursa Malaysia recently launched its Business Sustainability Programme in line with its call to Malaysian public-listed companies to integrate sustainability elements into their business strategies. Together with this, the country’s regulator also launched Powering Business Sustainability – A Guide for Directors, which aims to assist directors in understanding the value of good sustainability practices so that sustainability will become a boardroom agenda. Read more

Bursa Malaysia wants sustainability as part of boardroom agenda

Bursa Malaysia Bhd will launch its Business Sustainability Programme soon, in a bid to engage directors of public listed companies on Malaysia‘s stock exchange in making sustainability practices a boardroom agenda. Read more

Bursa Malaysia Plans ESG Index

Bursa Malaysia’s chief executive officer, Datuk Yusli Mohamed Yusoff, announced recently that Malaysia’s stock exchange plans to have its own Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) Index in the next few years. This is said to be a bid to to attract investors with increasing awareness of this area, Datuk Yusli was reported to have said at the CSR Asia Summit 2009 in Kuala Lumpur recently. Read more