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Disconnects holding back gender diversity: EY report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... to have responded better, although insurance was a laggard," he said." Because of the high costs of training skilled executive staff, having low participation levels of women means that companies are not only open to governance risks, they are incurring ...

Video: Investing and human rights

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... AMP Capital Investors in Sydney. The panel was moderated by The Sustainability Report. The panel included Alice Cope, executive manager of the UN Global Compact Network Australia, Peter Murphy, CEO of Christian Super, Ian Woods, head of ESG Investment ...

GRESB hires Lonneke Lowik as new head of operations

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
The Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) has hired Lonneke Lowik as its new head of operations. As head of operations, Lowik will oversee the business operations and manage GRESB's Amsterdam headquarters. "Lonneke brings more than a decade ...

Companies, investors assessing Sustainable Development Goals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2016  |  NEWS
... Development Goals (SDGs), a process supported by a wide variety of stakeholders on all side of the process. Alice Cope, executive manager, Global Compact Network Australia The SDGs are a set of 17 goals to "end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure ...

Conduct risk a concern for financial services sector: Ausbil

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2016  |  NEWS
... in regards to incentives, which may induce encouragement to take risk to achieve higher pay. "People often talk about executive remuneration, but let's not forget the remuneration down the chain," Carlsson-Sweeny said. "Their remuneration structures ...

GRI, UN Global Compact renew partnership, collaboration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2016  |  NEWS
... pleased to renew our long-standing and essential collaboration with GRI on sustainability reporting," said Lise Kingo, executive director of the UN Global Compact. "Together we can help companies measure and report on their efforts around the new Sustainable ...

Citi, Credit Suisse top ESG RA Awards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2016  |  NEWS
... lending, whilst climate change issues dominated the environmental nominations. Reports covering governance issues such as executive remuneration were also nominated. "The need to define objectively what factors may be material in a sector, and how they ...

GRI, Danish Institute for Human Rights collaborate on reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2016  |  NEWS
... of GDP in OECD member countries is spent on purchasing goods and services," said Teresa Fogelberg, GRI deputy chief executive. "This usually occurs without these public agencies holding themselves accountable for the conditions under which those products ...

AODP releases 2016 Global Climate 500 Index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2016  |  NEWS
... the world's major investors, the bar keeps rising and this can only be a good thing," said Peter Lambert, LGS chief executive officer. "To know that we are rising with it represents a real endorsement of our approach. We believe that economic prosperity ...

FlexiGroup prices first green asset-backed security transaction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... "We are very excited by the innovation shown in this latest transaction," said Symon Brewis-Weston, FlexiGroup Chief Executive Officer. "Solar funding has represented a significant portion of the Certegy business for several years and is one of our strongest ...