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Responsible Investment Certification Program certifies BetaShares Global Sustainability Leaders ETF

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2017  |  NEWS
... Association Australasia (RIAA) has certified BetaShares' Global Sustainability Leaders ETF (ASX: ETHI). Alex Vynokur, managing director, BetaShares ETHI is the first global equities ETF available on the ASX that uses a broad set of ethical eligibility ...

New Forests purchases timberland estate in northern California

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2017  |  NEWS
... long tradition of sustainable land stewardship and production forestry in Northern California," said New Forests' US Director Brian Shillinglaw. " As we work toward completion of this transaction in early 2018, New Forests is dedicated to ensuring continuity ...

IGCC annual conference discusses managing climate change risk, solutions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2017  |  NEWS
... those figures were "incrementally increasing, but not as high as we would have expected." Ilya Serov, associate managing director, Moodys' Investor Services, noted that disclosures is a significant challenge in terms of the level of disclosures by corporations. ...

Governance experts discuss issues in AGM season

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 OCT 2017  |  NEWS
The issues of women on boards in Australia, remuneration and board and director accountability for company performance are clear themes of engagement for investors in the annual general meeting (AGM) season. Ed John, ACSI executive manager, governance ...

Christian Super hires Ross Piper as new chief executive officer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 OCT 2017  |  NEWS
... management roles across the finance and not-for profit sectors, including head of corporate risk at Macquarie Group and senior director of operations, Middle East and Eastern Europe at World Vision International, where he was closely engaged with a number ...

CEFC, Right Click Capital invest in Redback Technologies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 OCT 2017  |  NEWS
... Australian renewable energy start-up Redback Technologies. Philip Livingston, Redback Technologies founder and managing director The equity investment will support Redback's development and integration "of innovative smart software and hardware technologies ...

Woolworths facing shareholder resolution asking for human rights supply chain disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 OCT 2017  |  NEWS
... to shareholders on potential and actual human rights impacts in the company's supply chain. Brynn O'Brien, executive director, ACCR The Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR) has filed the resolution in on behalf of shareholders. ACCR ...

Considering the first 20 years of the Global Reporting Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2017  |  NEWS
... standards, it could impact more profoundly in the future on regulation and policy in this sphere. Leeora Black, managing director of the Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility The GRI has recently celebrated its 20 th anniversary. In that ...

Seven ASX 200 boards with no women, 64 with only one: AICD

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2017  |  NEWS
... Petschler said. "Our attention is turning to the largest group of companies in the ASX 200 which only have one woman director." There are 64 boards with only one woman director, while research shows that a critical mass - defined as 30% - is needed to ...

Strong uptick in participation in second GRESB Infrastructure Assessment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2017  |  NEWS
... the Infrastructure sector in participation and ESG-performance," said Sander Paul van Tongeren, co-founder and managing director at GRESB. "With coverage across 24 countries and 25 sub-sectors, GRESB Infrastructure is rapidly becoming the global ESG ...