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Shareholders to face activist lobbying on Woolworths vote

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... say, deforestation of old growth trees or what have you at a barbeque, but they don't look at their superannuation investments. But as you've got groups like GetUp getting more active and joining the dots, some of the superannuation funds are readier ...

CFSGAM hires Pablo Berrutti as responsible investment head

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... global emerging markets equity team, which is based in Singapore. Meanwhile, CFSGAM, which is known as First State Investments outside of Australia and New Zealand, has also hired Will Oulton as global head of responsible investment, based in London. ...

Investor Profile: Five Oceans Asset Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... that questioning. It helps with the analysis of companies, it helps with the way that we run the business and the investments and it helps with the dialogue that we have with our clients. Q: In terms of some of your clients, you have mandates with LGS ...

Investor Profile: Omega Global Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... environmental, social and governance signals into consideration when making investment decisions. Mathew McCrum, director, investments, talks with The Sustainability Report about the strategy, and how ESG signals can be used to minimise volatility and ...

AMP Capital fund buys stake in Indian clean energy company

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... energy sources of which wind dominates with almost 15 GW of installed capacity." AGIF is not considering any other investments in renewable energy assets at this time, AMP Capital said. Environmental, social and governance factors are considered by the ...

Clean Energy Regulator and ASIC to work together

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Regulator (CER) and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) have signed an agreement outlining how they will manage regulatory responsibilities under the forthcoming carbon pricing regime. The CER administers a number ...

Australian Ethical Investments faces EGM board spill

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
A group of dissatisfied shareholders are seeking to spill the entire board of fund manager Australian Ethical Investments at an extraordinary general meeting called for 21 June. The group of shareholders, which include Timothy Xirakis, former head of ...

Disruptive innovation, ESG factors pose media sector risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... a number of remuneration reports and director elections for those companies in the media sector in which they have investments and have engaged with companies to highlight their concerns. Carlsson-Sweeny noted that listed Australian media companies are ...

Superannuation funds increasingly act, invest sustainably

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... SuperRatings found that the introduction of the carbon pricing regime in July is spurring a drive towards sustainability in investments and operations by superannuation funds. Despite short term uncertainty over policy shift should the opposition Liberal ...

LGS audit finds ASX has higher carbon, lower ESG risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... intensity/ESG score in the audit. That gets us underneath the benchmark of the MSCI World and also positions us with investments in industries with great long term prospects. It's difficult to do with the ASX because there aren't enough of those companies ...