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Mercer to analyse climate change portfolio risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... most likely to experience the greatest shift in demand and be worst off, along with the US, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Canada. Since the 2011 report, Mercer clients have continued to become more exposed to information around climate change and its ...

UCA Funds Management appoint independent directors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... years' experience in senior roles in law firms, financial services and corporate treasury operations in Australia, the UK, Canada and the US. Since 2002, she has also held a number of directorships and is currently a non-executive Director of Victorian ...

Farmland attractive to super funds, but liquidity a concern

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... to allocate investment to farmland. Funds that are investing include US TIAA-CREF, Swedish AP2 and AP3, Netherlands APG, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and NZ Super." Noble was speaking from his perspective at IPCM, a new boutique investment firm ...

Push to focus on tax reform, transparency as part of G20

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... obvious." Countries around the world are adopting disclosure payment disclosure standards for listed mining companies - Canada is working towards adopting a G7 initiative requiring mining companies to disclose payments it makes to governments. The European ...

RIAA launches RI Academy in Canada, India

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA)'s Responsible Investment Academy (RI Academy) is being introduced to Canada and India in conjunction with local responsible investment associations. Simon O'Connor, RIAA CEO RI Academy is an online ...

Interest spurs new developments in social enterprise funding

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... "intended for small scale, non-accredited investors and can only be issued by a non-profit organization", according to Canada's Centre for Social Innovation. Canadian social enterprises are currently using community bonds, and much in the way that New ...

Push continues for Australia to adopt mining payment regime

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
Canada has gone one step closer to establishing a payment disclosure standard for its listed mining companies, with civil society groups in Australia increasing the focus on seeing a similar regime introduced here. Last week, a multi-stakeholder Resource ...

Willingness to pay affects BlackRock sovereign debt scores

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... Widodo in next year's presidential election. Norway, Singapore, Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Taiwan, Australia, Canada and New Zealand were the in the top 10 quintile for performance against sovereign risk, according to BlackRock. India, Hungary ...

Publish What You Pay to take case to new government

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... and Europe have introduced the kinds of legislation we wish to see in Australia when it comes to payment disclosure, and Canada has announced that they will bring in payments disclosure." Earlier this year, the European Parliament voted in favour of ...

GNDI comments on proposed Integrated Reporting framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... Governance (IBGC), the European Confederation of Directors Associations (ecoDa), the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD) in Canada, the Institute of Directors in New Zealand (IoDNZ), the Institute of Directors in Southern Africa (IoDSA), the Institute ...