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Climate-related shareholder resolutions put to Rio Tinto, QBE AGMs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
... Tinto and QBE backed resolutions related to climate change-related risk. Bill Hartnett, head of sustainability, Local Government Super On May 2, Rio Tinto held its Australian AGM and voted on a shareholder resolution calling on Rio Tinto to review and ...

Future of mobility requires key action by business, policy makers: SBA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... market disruption; evolution of the workplace, customer journeys and how goods are moved around; and collaboration with government and other business to catalyse business action. "One of the big insights is that a lot of businesses are ill prepared for ...

Examining the corporate governance implications of share buybacks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... propping up earnings per share statistics, or responding to perverse incentives in executive remuneration? Since the US government passed significant corporate tax cuts in December 2017, US listed companies have increased the pace of share buybacks - ...

Cbus Super makes first direct infrastructure investment into renewable energy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... and the Dutch Infrastructure Fund (DIF) will own 80.1% equity in the portfolio, while Synergy, the West Australian government-owned electricity generator and retailer, will own the remaining 19.9%. This is the first deal done by the $43 billion industry ...

Mercer hires three consultants to responsible investment team

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... KPMG Banarra. At KPMG, Stamp worked with clients across FMCG, real estate, natural resources, financial services and government in managing human rights, social and environmental impacts, risks and opportunities, Mercer said. He holds a Master of Science ...

Government finds no legislative barriers to implementing TCFD

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018  |  NEWS
The federal government says there are no legislative barriers preventing the full adoption of the Financial Stability Board Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) in corporate reporting. Sarah Barker, special counsel, Minter Ellison ...

BHP Billiton to maintain membership in US Chamber of Commerce

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... topic for the Rio Tinto AGM. More than a hundred individual shareholders and three global asset owners including Local Government Super (LGS) have co-filed a shareholder resolution calling on Rio Tinto to review and fully disclose its relationships with ...

Ruling against Heinz shows risks in public shift towards health foods

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... plenty of alternatives in healthy consumer goods that are well positioned to benefit from consumer trends as well as government action. Examples include Vitasoy, selling plant based milks in Australia, HK and China; Standard Foods selling oats into Taiwan ...

Deloitte survey finds procurement leaders lack visibility in supply chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... analysis of their exposures to human rights risks in their supply chain. It is widely expected that the Australian government will pass a Modern Slavery Act during the current term of government. "This is one of a number of reports that point to the ...

ACSI report finds gaps in ASX200 codes of conduct, whistleblowing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... and results and will be talking to companies about that," Davidson said. "This report goes to companies, it goes to government, it goes to regulators and I hope will be used to inform their thinking and discussions as well."