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Investors apply ethical screens to cash management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... Adam Verwey, formerly a senior relationships manager at Australian Ethical Investment, and Simon Sheikh, former national director at GetUp!. Future Super has one fund option - a balanced growth fund with a 70/30 split between growth assets and income ...

GRI to implement new governance structure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) will adopt a new governance structure from January 2015 that will include the Global Sustainability Standards Board (GGSB), which will develop and approve sustainability reporting standards. As part of the new governance ...

Climate Bond Standard to establish water investment criteria

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... to US$1 trillion in clean water infrastructure investment will be needed over the next 15 years, said Sharlene Leurig, director of the Sustainable Water Infrastructure Program at Ceres. "Such 21st-century clean water infrastructure has the potential ...

CDSB publishes final draft of expanded framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... contain management commentary, you could probably more easily see what we're proposing," Lois Guthrie, CDSB executive director told The Sustainability Report when CDSB reported on the public feedback to the first draft in August. "If you've worked primarily ...

bankmecu MD discusses integrated reporting implementation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... role that Integrated Reporting (IR) can play in enhancing transparency and financial stability, with bankmecu's managing director participating in a panel discussion on the topic at the recent 2014 World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) annual ...

Interest in green, social bonds continuing: JPMorgan Chase

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... also increased attention being paid to social benefit bonds as well, according to JPMorgan Chase. Marilyn Ceci, managing director, JPMorgan Chase corporate investment bank Marilyn Ceci, managing director at JPMorgan Chase corporate investment bank, was ...

202020 Vision makes business case for urban green

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... biodiversity, climate change, and the important sustainability aspects that produce the whole picture," said Andy Chambers, a director of Seed Consulting Services, one of the partners to 202020 Vision. "What we're talking about today is, who are the ...

Governance Institute of Australia questions shareholder primacy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... are paramount in business decision-making, according to a new paper by Governance Institute of Australia. Judith Fox, director, policy, Governance Institute of Australia The Governance Institute of Australia paper, Shareholder primacy: Is there a need ...

APRA adds materiality to trustees' risk management declaration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... widening the scope of risks that trustees must disclose to the prudential regulator. Dr Ulysses Chioatto, former executive director and head of research Australia and NZ, ISS APRA sent a letter to superannuation funds earlier this month, informing them ...

UNSW issues first sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... as environmental data in one report that helps communicate what sustainability means in metrics," said Aaron Magner, director, UNSW safety and sustainability. "It's the old management mantra - you can't manage what you can't measure. A lot of the data ...