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LGS publicly discloses proxy voting intentions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... nominations. "By engaging in this way, our aim is to increase our investee companies' awareness and understanding of current and future ESG issues, improve standards of governance and encourage greater disclosure," Lambert said. See Also: Local Government ...

Video: Fossil Fuel Divestment Exposure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... Regulations and legislation are changing the way companies and asset owners report on carbon emissions and exposures to future carbon emission liabilities, and more than 30 countries have a price on carbon emission. There are also better, more sophisticated ...

ASX200 ESG reporting improves, but laggards persist: ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... environmental and sustainability risks in the recommendations assessment of... the business strategies, and prospects for future financial years of the entity reported on." "The changes to the ASX Corporate Governance Guidelines formalise what investors ...

Local Government Super top AODP index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... these asset owners actually lost points from last year's score." Thirteen Australian funds received the X rating, including Future Fund, REST, Telstra Super and Super SA, AODP said. The release of the global AODP index comes just after AODP and environmental ...

Companies consider implications of new ASX principles

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... revolves around how much should be disclosed and whether a company could be at a competitive disadvantage in revealing future direction or current skills deficits. "There has been a lot of concern about this particular change, the board skills matrix," ...

Northern Trust opens Australia/NZ asset management office

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... custodian, Northern Trust oversees more than AU$200 billion in assets and is the custodian for asset owners including the Future Fund, CSC, QIC, IAG, ACT Treasury and Energy Industries Superannuation Scheme (EISS). The asset management business will ...

Experts evaluate ERF baseline mechanism

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... "relatively straightforward," but legal experts have raised concerns over the calculations of baselines for both current and future liable facilities. Elisa de Wit, partner, Norton Rose Fulbright Under the proposed baseline and safeguard mechanism outlined ...

Mirvac integrates sustainability in "place-making" thinking

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... Everything". The strategy encompasses four areas of focus: smarter thinking - creating "a smart portfolio by 2020"; shaping the future of place - creating a framework for the future of place by 2015; re-imagining resources - to be net positive by 2030 ...

Future Home Loans to broker fossil fuel free loans

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
The founders of Future Super have launched Future Home Loans, a mortgage broking company that will assist people in taking up or switching their home loans to banks that do not finance the expansion of the fossil fuel sector. Simon Sheikh, managing ...

AMP Capital to advise GII on renewable infrastructure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... bring it to market and expect to contribute to society as a stable funding provider in the renewable energy sector in the future."