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IIRC considers assurance of Integrated Reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... assurance and how different mechanisms contribute to credibility and trust; methodology issues dealing with, for example, future-oriented information, soft narrative and completeness of a report; and materiality, the reporting boundary and connectivity ...

Diversity Council Australia measures the bamboo ceiling

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... emerging leaders" from Asian cultural backgrounds working in Australia in their latest report, Cracking the Cultural Ceiling: Future Proofing Your Business in the Asian Century. The report finds that Asian-Australians represent 9.3% of the Australian ...

ARENA funds expansion of Doomadgee Solar Farm

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... Gulf of Carpentaria will drastically reduce the Doomadgee community's reliance on expensive diesel fuel and secure its future power production with renewable, reliable solar," Frischknecht said. "Ergon Energy will achieve up to 100% solar penetration ...

Net Balance: sustainability assurance increase in ASX200

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... story, or make it a story and not just a disclosure document. I think we will start seeing a lot more varied reporting in future." See Also: ASX includes ESG language in corporate governance guidance

UCA Funds Management adds Transfield Services to exclusions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... Energy, Sundance Energy Australia, Sino Gas and Energy Holdings, Senex Energy and Whitehaven Coal will be excluded from future investment, joining BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, which were already excluded. See Also: UCA Funds Management names fossil fuel ...

AGL installs first solar panels at Nyngan solar plant

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... carbon emission generation in the national electricity market." Developing large-scale solar is "vital" to a diverse energy future in Australia, and "makes good economic sense in Australia where we have an abundant supply of solar energy," said Ivor ...

CEFC, CFSGAM to establish clean energy infrastructure fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... energy efficiency and low emissions technologies. It was funded with AU$10bn and announced as part of the Clean Energy Future package to encourage private investment, help overcome capital market barriers to commercialising clean energy technologies ...

Mercer research surveys governance at superannuation funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... being AU$60,000 a year. Independent directors are usually paid and Mercer said it believes it will become the norm in the future to pay all trustee directors. "Some trustee boards don't pay directors at all," McAlister said. "It's a historical legacy ...

Financial System Inquiry addresses impact investment market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... me is that [the FIS] saw that this is an opportunity to think more broadly within the context of the financial system's future and to think about what are the tools at our disposal to create the outcomes we're looking for," said Sandy Blackburn-Wright ...

Universe of climate-linked bonds expands to US$502.6bn

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... an index, in terms of size of issuance and the currency - just over half of the full universe meets index requirements." Future growth in the climate-themed bond space is expected to come both from investors pushing for exposure to bond issuance linked ...