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Renewable energy poses opportunities, risks for investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... confidence to look into other states than Victoria," he said. "That's an unfortunate result of the action that Victoria took. People will look at New South Wales, Tasmania, and South Australia for those projects." Going forward, the state and federal ...

Carbon price an "entry point" for sustainability discussion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... become a financial issue for future costings for goods and services, and it'll become a more objective process, allowing people permission to enter into the space with a more objective view," Magner said. "From that perspective, the carbon tax is making ...

Companies increasing remuneration report transparency

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... we've made comment on remuneration structure and asked for clarification for what we'd seen previously. The other is that people have come in and asked for a meeting to talk about their remuneration policies and why they have been constructed a certain ...

Investor Profile: Local Government Super

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... of government assistance, we were looking at up to 10 years to break even, which is a little bit too long to encourage people to go down that path. We would generally hold our properties for longer than 10 years, but if a fund has to pay off energy and ...

Metcash drop paper supplier over Indonesian foresting concerns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... the end of the day, I'm here to encourage businesses to reduce their environmental and social impact while profiting our people. This supply chain program is a powerful tool to help us achieve our goal." Metcash is a wholesale distribution and marketing ...

James Thier retires from Australian Ethical

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... financial crisis, 9/11, and there have been new products like the Climate Advocacy Fund as well. The company is now 50-odd people - when I started there was one full time employee and five directors. Everyone was doing everything." While intending to ...

Interview: Anthea McIntyre, Australian Institute of Company Directors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... whether they knew someone who might be suitable. By doing this, chairmen would be limiting the candidate pool to only those people who are known by existing board members. What I've suggested in the book is to critically look at the way in which you ...

Forthcoming GRESB report to benchmark RE environmental, social performance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... also for the first time asked questions about social issues - health and safety, impact on biodiversity, displacement of people, greenfield and brownfield developments, tenancy issues and how companies and developments engage with the community in which ...

Board capacity a key governance concern

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... boards. I think we have to be mindful of that, and encouraging companies to go beyond the pool to the wider pool of available people in corporate Australia, public service Australia, and non-profit Australia. I think there is a risk that basically, you'll ...

Social risk: the impact on the Australian cattle industry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... south -are arguments that don't stand up to economic analysis. Indonesia has a rapidly growing population, they have more people with more money, and there is a role for the meat industry in Australia to supply that. But the worst thing to come out of ...