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Towers Watson outlines framework for fossil fuel risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
Towers Watson has addressed growing institutional investor concern over fossil fuel investments and the risks of stranded assets by outlining a framework for response, embedded in the investment decision making process. Nick Kelly, investment consultant ...

Teachers Mutual Bank leads in community investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... recently published its Australia and New Zealand Annual Benchmark Review and its global review. The LBG is the global standard for measuring and benchmarking corporate community investment. LBG's model measures an organisation's community contribution ...

RIAA reviewing responsible investment certification program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... demonstrating the best of ethical and responsible investing. What's key here is anyone who is certified is different from a standard financial product in that they apply a responsible investment overlay consistently in their investment decision making ...

INCR working group calls for green bond definitions, framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
A group of investors convened by Ceres' Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR) will seek to build increased definition and structure to support the development of the green bond market. The investor group released a statement of investor expectations ...

GRI publishes linkage document for EU ESG directive

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... them to fulfill the transparency expectations formulated in the Directive." said Bastian Buck, GRI's director reporting standard. See Also: European Parliament adopts standards for ESG disclosure

GRI creates two leadership groups for future discussion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is forming two corporate leadership groups - one to further the international discussion on the purpose of sustainability reporting, and a second on the role of integrated reporting. The GRI has established the ...

Bondor, QUT partner on sustainable building material project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... innovations. "This particular project came about from previous research saying that sustainable housing wasn't a focus in standard methods of housing construction, and it was hard to cater for customers who wanted something more sustainable," said Wendy ...

Universities "fail" on climate risk mitigation: AODP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... the core they are managing funds for beneficiaries in the future," Connor said. "[W]e think there should be a higher standard of transparency because they are charities and people aren't giving to [endowments]to get a student educated next week, but ...

Looking ahead to sustainability trends in 2015

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... and long term?" At the same time in 2015, there will be the global transition to the Global Reporting Initiative's G4 standard - all organisations using GRI now have to apply G4 standards to reports. G4's focus on materiality and the widening of organisational ...

Good Super appoints Andrew MacLeod as managing director

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... chunk the money in an index tracking fund and we're done. We'd like to refocus that and say, if we can give you industry-standard returns, surely we should be asking what is the capital doing while it's getting those returns." Good Super says it will ...