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Boards increasing engagement on remuneration reports

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... diversity won't go away, and it's not just about gender," she said. "We're talking about boards that have skills in human capital management, IT, legal and experience in the markets in which businesses operate." In addition to remuneration issues, Wilson ...

Hermes Fund Managers launch quant ESG equity strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
Hermes Fund Managers has created a global quantitative environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategy and has announced that Local Government Super (LGS) has awarded a AU$90m mandate for the strategy. The strategy combines Hermes' existing quantitative ...

Ernst & Young: go beyond carbon price implementation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... risks (such as the type of technology that will be used to generate carbon abatement)," the report said. "The upfront capital and timescale for project implementation and delivery should also be considered in light of the transition to a market based ...

Responsible investment in The Asian Century

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... returns from different things and it also means that the investment role is changing and by having more active, engaged capital, you hopefully get a more rapid allocation of capital to environmentally and socially sustainable areas." To that end, collaborative ...

Trustees exposed to legal risk over climate change impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... trustees to do this because trustees traditionally outsource all of their responsibilities - they outsource the allocation of capital to their advisers and consultants and they outsource the actual management to the managers. Climate change provides ...

Wesfarmers publishes 2012 sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... 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 report. In terms of carbon emissions ...

Operational changes needed to strengthen AGM voting: ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... of companies and their registries, the study also noted differing practices regarding vote exclusions (particularly on capital raising resolutions), a low take up of institutional electronic proxy lodgement (around 17%), the lack of an audit trail, and ...

New Forests issues second sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
Forestry and environmental markets fund manager New Forests reported a successful capital raising of a fund focusing on plantation assets in the Asia Pacific Region and progress on UN PRI commitments in its second sustainability report. New Forests ...

Kenyan bank endorses Natural Capital Declaration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
The KCG Group has endorsed the Natural Capital Declaration (NCD), becoming the first Kenyan bank and the second African bank to sign on to the declaration. The Natural Capital Declaration affirms the importance of natural capital in maintaining a sustainable ...

Q&A with Meg McDonald, CEO Low Carbon Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... different issues at play, particularly in relation to the decision-making within firms in the way in which they ration capital. The Investment decision-making is also complicated by the large number of options in emerging new technologies in the efficiency ...