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Co-ops, mutuals a "third way" for public service provision

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... green paper aiming to stimulate discussion on how the sector can provide innovative solutions. Les Hems, director of research and development, Tomorrow's Agenda Research Institute The report, Public Service Mutuals: The case for a Third-way for delivering ...

UCA Funds Management release 2013 annual report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... the right group of people, and it has to include community organisations and shareholders. Secondly, we need to do our research to identify what improvement in standards we want the payday lending sector to adopt. The last review of the Consumer Credit ...

AMP Capital lists fossil fuel exclusions for RIL funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... considerations we looked at in relation to fossil fuels," said Ian Woods, AMP Capital head of environmental, social and governance research. "One was, is there an alternative? So for thermal coal, yes, there are alternatives - gas, wind, solar, etc. ...

KPMG finds companies invest $12.2bn in social programs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... that other areas, even in comparison to other sustainability areas," said Chi Woo, KPMG Australia partner. "We did the research to confirm that gut feel, and the review of the 100 companies really did validate this. Companies are talking about their ...

ASIC guide widens scope of risk, future prospect disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... around environmental and social issues and their material impacts. Dr Ulysses Chioatto, executive director and head of research Australia and NZ, ISS ASIC released Regulatory Guide 247 (RG 247), Effective disclosure in an operating and financial review ...

Net Balance, Gold Standard report on co-benefits value

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... likelihood that a change would have happened to some extent without the project. In the report, Net Balance calls the research a "stepping stone" for future work. The analysis was based on including economic benefit transfer and financial "proxies" to ...

Managing ESG reputation can benefit corporate value

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... the novelty of the violation - i.e., is it a new incident. Sandra McCullagh, head of utilities, infrastructure, and ESG Research at Credit-Suisse cited the coal seam gas industry as an industry in which reputation has a major impact on a company's social ...

Sustainability reporting a source of key business value

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... Integrated Horizons and a stakeholder council member, of the Global Reporting Initiative, noted that while an academic body of research has demonstrated the overall links between a strong demonstration of corporate social responsibility and positive ...

Vast Solar begins construction on 6MW solar thermal station

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... energy for 3 hours' full power operation, day or night," the company said. Jemalong Solar Thermal Station is primarily a research and demonstration plant, but it will produce enough electricity to power about 400 average homes, the company said. "ARENA ...

AXA IM develops impact investing fund of funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... Rosenberg, the quantitative investment arm of AXA IM, created a model ESG SmartBeta portfolio, and according to AXA's research, the ESG SmartBeta portfolio outperformed a "vanilla" SmartBeta portfolio and the MSCI World Index on both overall performance ...