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Investors seeking ESG themes, factors in fixed income portfolios

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... December 2014 and is a diversified Australian fixed interest fund "focused on investing in companies which conduct their business and apply capital responsibly, giving full consideration to a range of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues." ...

Companies aware of Sustainable Development Goals: ACCSR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... Corporate Social Responsibility This year's review asked participants to give information on how they're aligning their business strategies with the SDGs. Companies report that the most important of the goals for Australian and New Zealand businesses ...

Podcast: Australia's Affordable Housing Solution

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... the New South Wales Federation of Housing Associations. Debby Blakey, CEO of superannuation fund HESTA. Jamie Muchall, business development manager at Horizon Housing Produced by Ellie Cooper. To access the podcast, click here

The search for better social metrics to value affordable housing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... through government requirements on tenant surveys and other government mandated reporting mechanisms, said Jamie Muchall, business development manager at Horizon Housing. "We measure basic stuff like the financial metrics, but also a lot of the social ...

Companies obliged to consider climate change: Minter Ellison

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... technological and societal responses. "The core message is that boards have to have regard to this issue in the context of their business and their industry," said Sarah Barker, special council at Minter Ellison. "There's no substitute now for the due ...

Women comprise 42% of 2016 ASX200 board appointments: AICD

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... that Australia's biggest companies have got the message that gender diversity is not just common sense, but also good business sense," said John Brodgen, AICD's managing director and chief executive officer. "We applaud the chairs who have appointed ...

Disconnects holding back gender diversity: EY report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... in leadership roles in the next five years, according to a new EY report. Trent van Veen, EY's Australian diversified business leader EY has released Navigating disruption without gender diversity? Think again, a survey of 350 C-suite executives from ...

MEP Werke GmbH, Strasser Capital join Climate Bonds Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
German solar power systems provider MEP Werke GmbH and its sponsor and private equity investor Strasser Capital GmbH, are joining the partner program of Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI). MEP Werke said that joining the partner program is the first step ...

Food Loss and Waste Accounting Standard launched

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... Organization of the United Nations (FAO), EU-funded FUSIONS project, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), and WRAP (The Waste and Resources Action Programme). "This standard is a real ...

IGCC outlines climate change policy priorities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... investors' perspective is included as well, but a whole range of perspectives committees need to be included, including business, state and local governments and the community at large" The IGCC focused on the big concept policy responses rather than ...