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Investors launch GRESB Infrastructure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015  |  NEWS
... and governance considerations are critically important for infrastructure investors," said Patrick Kanters, managing director, global real estate and infrastructure, APG Asset Management. "Therefore we join forces in setting up a global benchmark that ...

HESTA commits $30m to impact investment with SVA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015  |  NEWS
... landscape- housing, social impact bonds, social enterprises and the Indigenous world," said Ian Learmonth, executive director, impact investing, SVA. "Returns will be commensurate with the sort of financial risks that each of the investments produces. ...

Future Super, Thomson Reuters launch new indices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015  |  NEWS
... Australia Fossil Free Index and Thomson Reuters/Future Super Australia Sustainable Leaders Index. Simon Sheikh, managing director, Future Super The indices apply negative screening to remove direct and indirect fossil fuels and companies with low scores ...

Human rights considerations part of trustee board obligations

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
When industry superannuation fund HESTA announced that it had divested from its holdings in Transfield Services, it cited social governance concerns that, in their view, represented an unacceptable risk to members' future retirement savings for the ...

Newpin social benefit bond returns 8.9% in second year

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... their families and returning 8.9% to investors, according to Social Venture Australia (SVA). Ian Learmonth, executive director of impact investing, Social Ventures Australia The AU$7 million Newpin social benefit bond is Australia's first offering and ...

Governance Institute appoints Steven Burrell as CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
The Governance Institute of Australia has hired Steven Burrell as its new chief executive officer. Burrell is the former general manager of communications and public affairs at the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD), and will begin in ...

ASX companies report shared value strategies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... value strategies in their business, according to a survey conducted by the Shared Value Project. Helen Steel, executive director, Shared Value Project (photo courtesy Shared Value Project) The Shared Value Project conducted State of shared Value in Australia ...

Epuron Energy expands Uterne Solar Plant

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... the Uterne expansion to our growing portfolio of operational solar assets," said Martin Poole, Epuron Solar executive Director. "Uterne is the largest solar farm in Australia with sun tracking technology which captures more energy consistently throughout ...

PRI active on climate change, tax avoidance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... change in the lead up to the Paris Climate Change talks, among other activities, according to Fiona Reynolds, managing director. Reynolds is in Australia and is speaking at the Women in Super National Roadshows on the environmental, social and governance ...

ACCR considers appeal in Commonwealth Bank case

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... the ways it's limited is that ordinary resolutions can't express opinions about the company," said Felicity Millner, director of litigation, Environmental Justice Australia. Millner noted that the judge in the case, Australasian Centre for Corporate ...