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VicSuper publishes first G4, Integrated Reporting annual review

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... department. We leveraged off of existing mechanisms to find out what our stakeholders are talking about and thinking. That research part was key to the whole process, because not only did we find out exactly what is happening in the business, it gave ...

CSIRO hire Larry Marshall as chief executive

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has hired Dr Larry Marshall as its new chief executive. Larry Marshall, incoming chief executive of CSIRO Marshall is currently the managing director of Southern Cross Venture ...

Local Government Super enhances carbon-related screens

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... fundamentals have changed. You would typically find we would revisit it every couple of years." LGS used data from MSCI ESG Research as part of their analysis, Lambert said. The fund noted that coal and oil sands are the most carbon-intensive energy ...

Future Super launches as first fossil-fuel free fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... decision." Future Super will employ a strategy of enrolling and retaining members through community engagement, Verwey said. "Research shows that the pool for ethical investment is big, but the number of people who are in an ethical fund are small - ...

ClimateWorks Australia: Australia can decarbonise by 2050

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050 "without structural changes to the economy or lifestyle," according to recent research by ClimateWorks Australia and the Australian National University (ANU). The biggest changes needed to decarbonise the Australian ...

Mercer to analyse climate change portfolio risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... risks to investments. Birgden pointed to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report and its modelling information as one source of research that trustees have been exposed to. "We see trustees and investment committees asking more questions about risks in general ...

NAB, Good Shepherd Microfinance launch national campaign

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... mainstream banking. Good Shepherd Microfinance and NAB formally announced the strategy's launch and published results of new research conducted by Newspoll, which found that 18.7% of Australian adults "rarely or never have any money left at the end of ...

Sustainalytics hires Cheryl Gustitus

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... Last month, Sustainalytics announced it had hired Gary Hewitt to lead the development of expanded corporate governance research and data products. Hewitt is former head of governance research at GMI Ratings. He previously led a research team at Watson ...

MSCI assesses future carbon exposure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... drastically increasing tracking error or reducing investment returns, according to MSCI. executive director, global head of ESG research, MSCI MSCI has recently launched its ESG CarbonMetrics, a suite of carbon and fossil fuel metrics and screening tools ...

DJSI 2014 review names ASX companies industry leaders

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... expertise in assessing corporate sustainability programs." This is the 15th year of the DJIS. Separately, RepRisk, a research firm that provides business intelligence on environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks, announced that, through its partnership ...