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Disruptive innovation, ESG factors pose media sector risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... companies are impacted by ethical and governance issues as well as industry-wide disruptive innovations, and investors should research carefully to avoid potential value traps, according to AMP Capital. Mans Carlsson-Sweeny The media sector is being ...

Carbon price cost could have 0.1% impact on services sector

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... Associates, which performs energy efficiency audits and greenhouse gas (GHG) assessments, among other services, used research from the University of Sydney that models the impact of the carbon price for the services sector, such as the legal industry. ...

Perpetual to extend ESG dashboard to fixed income space

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... capture fixed income and asset backed securities. Pablo Berrutti Last year, Perpetual began the process of combining ESG research with the insights of their 16 equities analysts to develop one page reports on the ESG risks and opportunities of 240-270 ...

Plantic opens expanded bioplastics facility

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... Plantic's Altona facilities and in a speech, noted the innovation. "Plantic Technologies was born out of a Government-funded research project in 2000 which invited the clean technology industry to collaboratively find a solution to alternative food packaging," ...

Skills shortage in oil and gas sector a material ESG risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... previous experience and concerns over skills shortages, the AXA IM responsible investment team will follow up on this research with engagements with companies over coming months to see if there is a strategic focus on skills shortages. "We're talking ...

Superannuation funds increasingly act, invest sustainably

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
While 80% of superannuation funds have told research firm SuperRatings that they believe they have a responsibility to operate sustainably, only 20-30% of those respondents measure and report energy, waste and water usage regularly. In their annual ...

SAP: sustainability for innovation as well as cost reduction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... through a combined council that not only guides the business on the ground, but also feeds directly through to global research and development and executive functions. "When I started running this area in Australia, I created a customer-executive-sustainability ...

NAB partners to launch Victorian microfinance retail hubs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... which is the lead agency operating the hubs. "We really offer fair, open and honest financial products and services. Our research has shown us there is a significant gap in the market where banks have one retail offering and payday lenders have a very ...

GBST, CAER to offer quantitative ESG data tool

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
Global financial services technology provider GBST and corporate ESG research firm CAER - Corporate Analysis. Enhanced Responsibility are partnering on a quantitative ESG risk management tool aimed at superannuation funds and fund managers. The product ...

AMP hires Ross Andrews as ESG research associate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
AMP Capital has hired Ross Andrews as ESG research associate in line with its strategy to expand its proprietary Environmental Sustainable Governance (ESG) research more broadly across investment strategies. Ross Andrews, AMP Capital Andrews will assist ...