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Fiona Reynolds to take PRI managing director role

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... Reynolds has resigned as CEO of the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) to take a job as managing director of the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). Fiona Reynolds The newly created position will see Reynolds work alongside ...

Boards increasing engagement on remuneration reports

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... spend engaging with investors, particularly around executive remuneration issues, said Amanda Wilson, Regnan managing director. Wilson said that in the lead-up to this year's annual general meeting season, companies were contacting investors and advisers ...

PRI publishes hedge fund responsible investment paper

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... is currently no clear consensus on what being a responsible investor in hedge funds actually entails," said Rob Lake, director of responsible investment at PRI in a statement. "During the financial crisis and in its aftermath, hedge fund performance ...

Rann steps down as chairman of Low Carbon Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... chairman of Low Carbon Australia to take up an appointment as high commissioner to the United Kingdom. Martijn Wilder, a director of Low Carbon Australia and head of Baker and Mackenzie's global climate change and emissions trading practice has been ...

Sustainable development and Australia in the Asian Century

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... what the drivers are for future growth - growth in population, growth in middle class," said Chi Woo, the Sydney-based director of climate change and sustainability at KPMG. "At the same time, it reflects on the constraints to growth - some of them are ...

Responsible investment in The Asian Century

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... institutional investors can bring. "What we want is the innovation here in Australia," said Jennifer Lauber-Patterson, executive director, Frontier Carbon Limited, and head, Climate Market Investment Association for Australia, NZ, Singapore, Indonesia. ...

Low Carbon Australia finances stadium lighting upgrade

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... cut the club's total energy site use by 28% and reduced its court energy use by 64%, said Jeremy Maslin, GSI managing director, in a medium statement. Low Carbon Australia developed a financing package for CCYC to pay the AU$50,000 project cost over ...

Trustees exposed to legal risk over climate change impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... climate change could bring, there has not broad-based action to mitigate or hedge that risk, according to AODP executive director Julian Poulter. "The conclusion is stark and grim one for trustees that haven't built any capacities in this area," Poulter ...

Wesfarmers publishes 2012 sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... Coles businesses, "including more effective water metering to improve data quality." Richard Goyder, Wesfarmers managing director, identified human capital and carbon emissions as material issues to the business' operation in a statement opening the ...

RepuTex-ESG offering free ESG data on Asian companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... available information on these types of risks and how they impact the performance of local companies," said Martha Grossman, director of research at RepuTex-ESG, in a media statement. "Our aim is for the RepuTex ESG-Connect platform to become Asia's ...