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Persistent and increasing bonus pay pushes up ASX100 remuneration: ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... and that the median bonus awarded to an ASX100 CEO was at 70.5% of maximum entitlement. "At a time when public trust in business is at a low ebb and wages growth is weak, board decisions to pay large bonuses just for hitting budget targets rather than ...

Konica Minolta on working towards ethical supply chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... supply chain. The bill is widely expected to pass, as it has broad political support from political parties, as well as business, NGOs, investors and other stakeholders. But it will mean that companies will have to dive deeply into their supply chains ...

New Forests acquires New Zealand assets, closes ANZFF2 fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... target countries of Australia and New Zealand," said Mark Rogers, managing director for New Forests' Australia-New Zealand business. "New Forests has been selective and disciplined in creating the ANZFF2portfolio. The Wenita acquisition complements the ...

Reports analyse landscape for sustainability disclosures by corporate Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... sustainability issues, according to two recent reports on the Australian landscape. Andrew Petersen, CEO, Sustainable Business Australia The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) has released Corporate Sustainability Reporting in Australia ...

Mercer advises Business As Different approach to ESG issues

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
With responsible investments reaching more than a quarter of all investments globally, Mercer is urging business leaders to adopt a "Business As Different" (B.A.D.) approach to environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) issues. Alexis Cheang ...

CEFC commits $35 million to finance expansion of intelliHUB

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... Partners and global smart meter leader Landis+Gyr that is acquiring Acumen, Origin Energy's $267 million smart meter business unit. The Acumen business included the existing management and servicing of an existing 170,000 meters and the combined business ...

Giant Leap venture capital fund seeks impact businesses for investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... brand-new and they don't have any baggage. One of the thing we love about investing in start-ups is that as they scale the business, the impact scales as well, and for us, that's really what excites us, because we're looking for outsized social and environmental ...

Stewart Investors backs research on packaging sustainability performance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... packaging, at one point you are going to be required by customers or society more broadly or gov't to ether change your business model or to fully cost that packaging," Gait said. "The reason we commissioned it was two-fold - the first was to gain an ...

New reporting tool to improve Australian packaging sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... Alison is the Project Manager of the APCO reporting tool project. Dr Helen Lewis Helen Lewis runs her own consulting business, providing research and strategic advice to a range of industry and government clients on product stewardship and packaging. ...

Listed franchise companies facing structural reform risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... franchisors versus franchises that comes from four issues: "(1) Franchisees are deemed neither fully-fledged businesses nor Business Consumers under consumer law; they are in a regulatory no-man's land; (2) Duties to act in good faith and unconscionable ...