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KPMG: fraud costs Australian/NZ businesses $373 million

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... 2012, a report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) found that while the Australian government is making foreign bribery offences a priority, enforcement of its foreign bribery laws has been "extremely low". The OECD called ...

Local Government Super sells upgraded property

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
Local Government Super (LGS) has sold one of the properties in its portfolio for AU$42m. LGS sold SKM House in St Leonards to Altis Property Partners Group. The property had been retrofitted to 6-star NABERS rating and received a $439,000 grant from ...

Norton Rose launches clean energy law service

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... of a global carbon trading market. "The clear message that we took away from Mark [Dreyfus]'s comments is that the government does see the world moving to an international carbon market and that clearly linking is going to be a key aspect of that for ...

US$178.5bn in sustainable investments in Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... Australian sustainable investing. However, negative screening has grown by 30% since 2010, mainly due to the fact that Local Government Super expanded its sustainable investing overlay to large international equities. LGS now excludes investments in ...

Resource constraints could render pension funds insolvent

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... financial markets have a low sensitivity to resource limitations, prices are based on short-term availability, and government regulation focuses on managing flows of resources rather than stock; price driven change, in which markets have a long-term ...

Net Balance launches research and development institute

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
Net Balance has launched a dedicated research and development initiative, the Tomorrow's Agenda Research Institute, and appointed Les Hems as inaugural director of research and development. Tomorrow's Agenda Research Institute will see Net Balance take ...

VicSuper integrates governance risk into bond portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... countries and is then overlaid with BlackRock's Sovereign Risk Index, a non-investable index that measures relative government creditworthiness in a systemic manner. In addition to placing limits on highly indebted developed countries, the benchmark ...

Net Balance certified as a B Corporation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... will see both entities increase the range of their sustainability supply chain consulting services across private and government organisations in Australia. The merger was recently finalised and follows on from a history of successful partnerships, the ...

Developing methods for monitoring impact investment returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... are a number of managers providing funds into the impact investment sphere already in Australia, and the Australian government is further encouraging the sector's development through the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations' (DEEWR) ...

Climate Change Authority backs Renewable Energy Target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
The Climate Change Authority (CCA) has recommended that the government retain its renewable energy target (RET), which aims to source 20% of Australia's energy from renewable sources by 2020, a decision that has been welcomed as providing stability ...