“Burma/Myanmar investment a mixed bag”, 12 December 2014

…EIRIS Conflict Risk Network is launching the second installment of Investment Watch: Burma/Myanmar, a service designed to help investors make sound judgments about how companies are managing the risks related to doing business in the conflict-affected country…Investment Watch: Burma/Myanmar has now assessed and profiled 22 companies…Here are some of the key findings to date: None of the companies assessed and profiled has achieved an Overall grade of Good, which would indicate that a company was managing the risks related to its Burma/Myanmar investments…General Electric Company and Gap Inc. received the highest Overall grades in this installment…Among the companies assessed and profiled to date, the average score is considerably lower for Systems than for Policy, Reporting or U.S. Reporting. Low scores for Systems may indicate that it is more challenging for companies to implement policies than to establish and disclose them…