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Global Reporting Initiative hires chief of staff

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... impressed by the diversity of experience and backgrounds I have seen within the GRI team. I personally believe the sustainability agenda is crucial to our collective future. I'm looking forward to playing a role in taking GRI's work to the next level ...

ACSI lists ASX sustainability reporting leaders, laggards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
Although 85% of ASX200 companies provide some level of reporting on sustainability factors, more than 40% of those companies still rate in the bottom two categories of the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI)'s annual review of sustainability ...

Christian Super to merge with Australian Christian Super

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... increase in our membership - an increase of 20% - which is fantastic," Peter Murphy, CEO of Christian Super, told The Sustainability Report. "The second thing is that we get the potential to grow our fund organically. The Australian Christian Churches ...

GRI undergoing governance process to become standard setter

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... Reporting Initiative (GRI) is reorganising its governing bodies to strengthen its role as a standard setter for sustainability reporting. The changes will result GRI separating out its advocacy work from the standards-setting work and lead to the creation ...

Northern Trust's Bowers on ESG and funds management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... investment officer for Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific at Northern Trust Asset Management, met with The Sustainability Report while in Australia this week. He traced asset owners' interest in managing ESG exposure as a risk management ...

Superannuation fund investments will shape future economy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... Management. Gordon Noble, senior portfolio analyst, Inflection Point Capital Management Noble recently spoke with The Sustainability Report regarding his role with Inflection Point, a boutique investment firm with operations in London and Paris. It has ...

AMP Capital assesses progress, risks in Bangladesh factories

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... incremental business risks including impact on lead times, product quality and other concerns, and supply chain sustainability -if suppliers don't pay their workers a fair wage to meet basic needs, the supplier's business is not sustainable, and that ...

Farmland attractive to super funds, but liquidity a concern

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... funds globally," Noble said in a speech to the Victorian Farmers Federation Conference, which Noble provided to The Sustainability Report. "... The global understanding of the megatrends I have described has led pension funds to allocate investment to ...

ACCSR: Australian CSR integration is too little, too slow

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... I think that there's not one single explanation. A lot of business leaders and boards have made commitments to sustainability, but have not yet realised how deeply the commitments can transform an organisation, and the transformation is still a work ...

CEFC provides finance to New Energy Corporation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... helping to catalyse finance for this innovative project," said Oliver Yates, CEFC CEO. "Waste management is a complex sustainability challenge. Taking waste, which is a cost, and turning it into energy, makes a lot of business sense and represents a ...