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APRA adds materiality to trustees' risk management declaration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... risks that trustees must disclose to the prudential regulator. Dr Ulysses Chioatto, former executive director and head of research Australia and NZ, ISS APRA sent a letter to superannuation funds earlier this month, informing them that as a result of ...

DCA panel addresses employment of people with disabilities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... committed employees, we stay longer in jobs, we take less sick leave and we make fewer workers compensation claims. I have research to support all of them, yet 45% of us live in poverty. We are employed at a rate 30% lower than the rate of employment ...

UNSW issues first sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... firs t sustainability report, disclosing its environmental and social performance and the impact of its sustainability research and education. The university disclosed its performance around waste, water and energy, as well as its performance as community ...

VicSuper publishes first G4, Integrated Reporting annual review

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... department. We leveraged off of existing mechanisms to find out what our stakeholders are talking about and thinking. That research part was key to the whole process, because not only did we find out exactly what is happening in the business, it gave ...

CSIRO hire Larry Marshall as chief executive

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has hired Dr Larry Marshall as its new chief executive. Larry Marshall, incoming chief executive of CSIRO Marshall is currently the managing director of Southern Cross Venture ...

Local Government Super enhances carbon-related screens

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... fundamentals have changed. You would typically find we would revisit it every couple of years." LGS used data from MSCI ESG Research as part of their analysis, Lambert said. The fund noted that coal and oil sands are the most carbon-intensive energy ...

Future Super launches as first fossil-fuel free fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... decision." Future Super will employ a strategy of enrolling and retaining members through community engagement, Verwey said. "Research shows that the pool for ethical investment is big, but the number of people who are in an ethical fund are small - ...

ClimateWorks Australia: Australia can decarbonise by 2050

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050 "without structural changes to the economy or lifestyle," according to recent research by ClimateWorks Australia and the Australian National University (ANU). The biggest changes needed to decarbonise the Australian ...

Mercer to analyse climate change portfolio risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... risks to investments. Birgden pointed to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report and its modelling information as one source of research that trustees have been exposed to. "We see trustees and investment committees asking more questions about risks in general ...

NAB, Good Shepherd Microfinance launch national campaign

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... mainstream banking. Good Shepherd Microfinance and NAB formally announced the strategy's launch and published results of new research conducted by Newspoll, which found that 18.7% of Australian adults "rarely or never have any money left at the end of ...