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CDSB consultation finds broad support for framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... understand how different frameworks align with each other or interact with each other," said Lois Guthrie, CDSB executive director. "I would say that from the respondents, virtually everyone said yes, we acknowledge that environmental reporting is necessary ...

Ethinvest model portfolios continue to outperform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... indices by wide margins over the past one and two year periods, according to the firm. Trevor Thomas, Ethinvest managing director Ethinvest's ASX Green 100 had a return of 21.67% for the year ending 30 June 2014, as compared to a 17.65% return for the ...

PRI to target water risk in agricultural supply chains

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... companies around the world that have water risk exposure in their agricultural supply chain. Fiona Reynolds, UN PRI managing director The agriculture sector is the heaviest user of fresh water supplies, but many companies have "failed to recognise the ...

Mercer research surveys governance at superannuation funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
More than half of superannuation funds participating in a recent Mercer survey have reported that they do not currently have independent directors on their trustee boards. Pam McAlister, partner and senior governance consultant, Mercer Mercer surveyed ...

Financial System Inquiry addresses impact investment market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... "relatively simple instruments" such as social impact bonds are subject to "onerous disclosure requirements." David Rickards, director of Social Enterprise Finance Australia (SEFA), noted that the interim report did not go into detail on the barriers ...

Quantifying intangible assets to manage, drive company value

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... open opportunities for you, and to what extent you can close on those opportunities. With the value driver tree, a sales director can engage on the issue and because they're engaging and building their own value driver trees, they readily accept their ...

ARENA commits AU$18.5m to Energy Developments project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... operates 368MW of remote, off grid energy generation across 33 projects in Australia," said Greg Pritchard, ENE managing director. "This project highlights the company's potential to implement renewable hybrid systems in off grid applications to provide ...

Global Reporting Initiative hires chief of staff

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
​​​The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has created the new position of chief of staff and hired Tuulia Syvanen for the role. As chief of staff, Syvanen will coordinate strategy development and monitoring and ...

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 ...

Addressing the human crisis of climate change displacement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... people have access to land, according to a new book edited by climate change expert Scott Leckie. Scott Leckie, executive director, Displacement Solutions Land Solutions to Climate Displacement is based on field work from countries where climate-change-based ...