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Emerald Club and Premium Wealth Management sign alliance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... are not only ticking the boxes from an UNPRI perspective, or working in that direction, but also from an independent research list as well." Emerald Club currently have around 220 funds on their approved product list, and will filter those funds as part ...

ESG disclosures relevant to investors' decision-making

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... environmental issues, is used by analysts and investors to help analyse and inform investment decisions, according to research conducted by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and the Prince of Wales's Accounting for Sustainability (A4S) Project, in ...

Investors conducting climate change risk assessments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... risk, the survey also finds that asset owners need to do more to translate climate-change -related investment policies, research and risk assessments into investment decisions to reduce climate change risks in portfolios and capture climate-change related ...

IIRC appoints Peter Bakker deputy chair

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... for innovative corporate leadership such as linking manager compensation to non-financial goals, extensive operational research, and multiple-year leading positions in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index," IIRC said in a statement. He also led the demerger ...

Climate change top perceived likely risk to Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... as a panacea, the term is used so often and so broadly that its meaning is being diluted. Despite Australia's strong research outcomes, rate of commercialisation remain very low." The issue of inadequate R&D investment was intertwined with other issues. ...

The UpSide interview: Prof. Michael Grubb

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... Australia has learned from the mistakes of the EU ETS" Grubb is chair of the board of Climate Strategies and he is a senior research associate at the Faculty of Economics in Cambridge University (half time), and editor-in-chief of the journal Climate ...

US college and university endowments lag on ESG investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... Responsibility, Sustainability, and Stakeholder Relations," was commissioned and funded by the Investor Responsibility Research Center Institute (IRRCI). "The findings are somewhat counter intuitive to what one would expect from the university community," ...

Government launches coal mining abatement package

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... aid the coal industry. Resources Minister Martin Ferguson The package provides funding for three areas of development - research, development and demonstration of abatement technologies and processes, measures that address safety and regulatory issues ...

Shareholders to face activist lobbying on Woolworths vote

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... result of this issue, said Amanda Wilson, managing director of Regnan, a firm that provides advisory, engagement and research services around environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. "Our issue from an ESG perspective is the propensity for ...

Most Asia Pacific private equity investors monitor ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
The majority of Asia-Pacific investors in private equity monitor, or expect to monitor, general partners' environmental, social and governance (ESG) policies, in contrast to 70% of European investors and 27% of North American investors, according to ...