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RIAA to engage NZ investors on climate change, investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
New Zealand investment management professionals will debate climate change and unburnable carbon among other topics at the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) briefing in Auckland today. Simon O'Connor, RIAA CEO The 4 th annual Responsible ...

CBA questioned over carbon emissions calculations

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has reported that it has achieved and exceeded its target to reduce carbon emissions by the end of the 2012/2013 financial year, but it included in its calculations of its reductions a re-allocation of 3,500 tonnes ...

GRI names Christianna Wood chairman of board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... and manage the complexities of global environmental, social and economic relations and where reporting is set to become standard practice for large companies." The six board members will serve terms to December 2016. Eric Hespenheid, who was also named ...

Standard Life hires Amanda Young as head of SRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
Standard Life Investments has appointed Amanda Young as Head of Sustainable and Responsible Investment (SRI). Young comes to Standard Life Investments from Newton Investment Management. She is also a main board director of the UK Sustainable Investment ...

UN Statistics Division releases ecosystem accounting system

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... system to a micro level system. The Water Accounting Standards Board (WASB) has developed the Australian Water Accounting Standard (AWAS), which quantifies information about water, rights and other claims to water, and obligations against water. The ...

SEB, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley top climate bond underwriters

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
Swedish bank SEB, JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley are the leading underwriters of labelled climate bonds, while JP Morgan, Bank of America (BofA) Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse lead in deal size of the unlabelled climate bonds market, according ...

Foresters Community Finance funding for early stage ventures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... 1.4% on their funds. "In terms of the fees on the fund, as the fund manager, we charge a fund management fee that's a standard fee for all funds, and that is getting us close to break-even," Drew said. "On the other side, for borrowers there's an upfront ...

GRI, UN Global Compact, WBSCD to collaborate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... bring differing strengths to the collaboration - UNGC is a principle-based organization, GRI is an effective reporting standard, and WBSCD is a deep content based organization. "[T]o play its part effectively, business needs a comprehensive, globally ...

Publish What You Pay to take case to new government

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
Publish What You Pay Australia will press its case to the new federal government for the adoption of mandatory disclosure standards for companies in the mining and extractive industry. This week, Prime Minister Tony Abbott named the ministers who will ...

UN Global Compact designs equities index that outperforms

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
The UN Global Compact has launched an equities index based on companies that have committed to the Global Compact's principles, and found that the index has outperformed general global stock indices. The Global Compact 100 (GC 100) is released in partnership ...