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Investors to engage with payday lenders over practices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... should the regulatory environment toughen," the report said. "We believe [Thorn Group] is most exposed to tightening of regulations, as its primary market of goods rental has not had the same tightening as payday lending, where [Cash Converters] or [Money3] ...

Investment and the art of political maintenance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... it invests." Superannuation funds are expected to make judgements about risk management and return profiles - new regulations from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) require trustees to sign risk management statements, in which trustees ...

Panel discusses fossil fuel divestment for super funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... companies involved in the manufacture and/or production of coal, based on 33% material threshold, LGS said at the time. Regulations and legislation are changing the way companies and asset owners report on carbon emissions and exposures to future carbon ...

202020 Vision makes business case for urban green

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... to sell what story to get institutional investors, urban planners, state governments, developers all creating good regulations?" The tour has commenced in Adelaide, where Seed Consulting helped to facilitate part of the workshop. The tour starte around ...

Australian companies still lag on anti-corruption policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... issue of self-reporting by companies. "One of the issues coming out of the B20 is really, in terms of harmonising regulations and making it easier for organisations to self-report, and to have a national body in each country to whom organisations can ...

KPMG proposes framework to analyse externalities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... Vision of Value, which examines three drivers that are forcing companies to measure and manage externalities - "new regulations and standards; the growing influence of stakeholders; and changing market dynamics driven by economic, social and environmental ...

Mercer research surveys governance at superannuation funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... surveyed 33 superannuation fund CEOs, fund secretaries and governance, risk and compliance managers, in the wake of new regulations from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) around governance standards, including risk management. In ...

ACSI lists ASX sustainability reporting leaders, laggards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... validation." ACSI noted that their annual research this year comes in the context of new reporting guidelines and regulations from ASIC and the ASX Corporate Governance Council, which will have implications for companies' sustainability reporting. Earlier ...

CFI a source of economic opportunity for Indigenous groups

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... when it comes to the additionality test. "The CFI is a complex process to work through - there are so many rules and regulations to it and a lot of green tape," he said. "We shouldn't get caught up in other programs, but by default, we might get caught ...

Norton Rose Fulbright: trustees must consider climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... investors such as pension funds to divest from assets in South Africa. Morally couched divestment movements can lead to regulations that could negatively impact on investments as well. "Trustees might be put in a position where they say, you know what ...