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Industry to coordinate efforts to develop impact investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... investment market will be the generation of commonly recognised metrics to measure not only the economic impact of investments but also the social impact. The IMPACT report notes that there are global networks that provide models for monitoring impact ...

IIRC publishes Integrated Reporting consultation draft

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... human and intellectual capital, are not accounted for in conventional corporate reports; short-changing corporate investments and initiatives whose pay-offs are longer term," said Alison George, Regnan engagement manager. "An integrated report offers ...

Investor questions about risks, oversight of coal seam gas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... and low levels of community cooperation, and there is high potential to regulatory response, which are all risks to investments. This social unrest can manifest itself in changes to regulation, another risk. "The other thing that is a real unknown is ...

Australian Ethical puts tobacco resolution to TOMRA AGM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... institutional investors via the UNPRI clearinghouse. Australian Ethical has received support from Rathbone Greenbank Investments and Triodos Investment Management as well as other institutional shareholders, Vernon said. "It was interesting to note that ...

Local Government Super adopts private equity ESG framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... framework, said Bill Hartnett, head of sustainability at LGS. "It's a common sense approach to looking at private equity investments with particular focus on two areas - disclosure during fundraising and then secondly in the reporting once you have the ...

SIRIS placed into administration, company confirms

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... to a whole range of organisations that we've been able to identify." In a filing with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, SIRIS noted the company had approximately ten creditors owed a total of AU$629,592. An external creditor "lost ...

Companies advised to manage carbon price future uncertainty

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... market's future - the unwinding of commercial arrangements around pass-through of carbon price costs, and long-term investments that hinge on the ongoing price of carbon and other measures in the government's Clean Energy Future legislation. The Liberal-National ...

IGCC releases reports analysing climate change impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... Change (IGCC) have released three reports analysing the impacts of climate change, energy cost and carbon risk on investments in the mining and minerals, property and construction, and oil and gas sectors. The likelihood of more than two degrees of global ...

Government to maintain existing Renewable Energy Target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... large-scale technologies such as wind farms and hydro. Today's decision to leave the policy settings in place honours these investments while unlocking over $18 billion of investment to come." Separately, KPMG this week released a report analysing Chinese ...

Q&A with Michael Walsh, UCA Funds Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... they're more income-focused. The reason they're income-focused is that a lot of not for profits build up a corpus of investments, a bit like a charitable foundation and that income is then used in their mission. Our investment style for managing cash ...