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Mercer speaks on managing future risks, climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... like climate change, resource scarcity, aging population and the interrelated nature of the risks, and the physical and political and the economic implications of them." These megatrends require thinking about future risk, which is not always captured ...

Business response to climate change "creative self-destruction"

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
... University of Newcastle conclude that while mitigating and containing climate change requires dramatic economic and political change, "corporate capitalism continues to rely on the maintenance of 'business as usual'." "I think our argument is in line ...

Companies considering implication of BEPS reform: KPMG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
... they're doing," she said. "Partly, of course, this has been driven by the whole austerity agenda in Europe. It has become political as well. Then again, I look across the rest of region, and you see very, very different issues in Africa, for example ...

China "grown into" role as climate change leader

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
... considerations as well - Qi Ye said that public health and safety issues around air pollution and health have become social and political issues in China. "[It is] a social problem and now a political problem so severe that it is becoming a major threat ...

CAER, South Pole Group partner on investment services

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2015  |  NEWS
... partnership with CAER allows South Pole Group to promote their invetsemnet services, Horster said. "Regardless of the political outcome of the COP21 in Paris, it is clear that leading investors have acknowledged their responsibility and roles in addressing ...

Australia falls in EY renewable energy index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015  |  NEWS
... "threatens to paralyse the industry" in that country. India was in third place in the RECAI rankings, beause of economic, political and energy market reforms as well as ongoing foreign investment, with Germany in fourth. "Policy changes still have an ...

Aust/NZ investors committed to ESG in alt investments: Mercer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... very important. Negative reputational impacts and headline risks can flow through to the bottom line. Understanding the political and social landscape is important. There are environmental considerations as well, because these are physical assets that ...

Gordon Hagart to leave ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... goal of 30% women on ASX200 boards ACSI hire Gordon Hagart as new chief executive officer Investment and the art of political maintenance

Investment and the art of political maintenance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... is the process of governing an entity for the purpose of allocating resources. Superannuation funds are not partisan political participants in the way that elected politicians are, but funds' investment activities are impacted by politics, policy and ...

Canada adopts mining payment regime, Australia next?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... game-changer in the Australian context in the sense that it has a similar industry profile to Australia, and it has similar political leadership at the moment," she said. "The fact is that the Canadian government sees the benefit in requiring their companies ...