Search Results

Showing 1451 - 1460 of 1572 results for "research"

Accountancy profession a driver of corporate sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... transdisciplinary perspectives to solve problems, said Professor Roger Burritt, CAGS director, and Joanne Tingey-Holyoak, research associate at CAGS. "Sustainability is a policy decision that's been adopted by many governments around the world, trying ...

Using water accounting to measure, manage financial risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... accounting bodies in Australia - CPA Australia and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, and by the Australian Research Council. "One purpose of the book is to recognise that there are different systems that are called water accounting," ...

CFSGAM hires Pablo Berrutti as responsible investment head

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... across asset classes in the Asia Pacific region. Berrutti is the current chair of the Investor Group on Climate Change research working group, and a director of Responsible Investment Association of Australasia. McCluskey, head of sustainability and ...

Companies, investors prepared for carbon price launch

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... in order." Since the Clean Energy Future legislation passed through Parliament last year, there has also been intense research into possible costs and implications for investors, as well as in some cases years of emissions data via the voluntary disclosures ...

MSCI launches ESG portfolio analytics tool

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... how effectively ESG risks are taken into account," said Remy Briand, managing director and global head of index and ESG research. "MSCI ESG Portfolio Analytics provides a way for institutional investors to report and engage on ESG risks as it offers ...

Investor Profile: Five Oceans Asset Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... concentrated portfolios; we're not index-relative. We invest in between 60-80 stocks in each fund. Q: how do you gather research? Do you use external providers or internal research capabilities? KT: We use both. Our first cut, if you like, is MSCI ESG ...

ACSI may name companies with poor sustainability disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... sufficient level of disclosure on sustainability risk and disclosure "continues to be of questionable quality," according to research from the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI). The investor group has further warned that they will ...

IIRC to publish integrated reporting framework in 2013

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... recognise that investors are not the only target audience of an integrated report. "Given the nature of the responses, research will be undertaken on the commonality and differences between the information needs of investors (which include various types ...

AGL Energy, First Solar granted $130m for solar project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... under the Education Investment Fund to the University of Queensland and University of New South Wales to conduct related research. The NSW Government has also committed to provide AU$64.9m to the project. In February of this year, the Department for ...

Investor Profile: Omega Global Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... because these countries have a very good profile from purely a fundamental perspective. What we're doing now is some research into the causality. I can't think of an exception where a country that rates on ESG is bad from a fundamental perspective, but ...