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Northern Trust develops emerging markets low CO2 fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... incorporate environmental criteria into their portfolios while gaining the desired exposure," said John Krieg, managing director for Northern Trust's asset management arm in Europe, Middle East and Africa. "We are pleased to work in partnership with ...

New co-op body to stress economic, social value of model

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... still not sophisticated and do not measure all of the aspects of value generated by mutuals, according to Alan Greig, a director of Social Business Australia (SBA), an organisation of social businesses to dedicated to developing the sector. "There is ...

Standard Life hires Amanda Young as head of SRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... Investment (SRI). Young comes to Standard Life Investments from Newton Investment Management. She is also a main board director of the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF). She is also a member of the Market Committee Advisory Group ...

PRI launches new reporting framework for signatories

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... essential if the financial services industry is to win back the trust of its stakeholders," said Fiona Reynolds, managing director of the PRI. "This information will improve the dialogue between companies and investors about the real drivers of long-term ...

ACSI: ASX100 boards more diverse in gender, background

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
Around two-thirds of all new director appointments to ASX100 companies in 2012 went to individuals who are not currently Top 100 directors, according to research from the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI). Ann Byrne, ACSI CEO The ...

Insurer Catlin Group sponsors survey of global coral reefs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... Reef, deploying cameras that can take high definition images every couple of seconds," said Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, director of the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland. "We're using a whole range of images to count the coral ...

SEB, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley top climate bond underwriters

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... market since we led the first such bond, EIB's EUR600mm Climate Awareness Bond, in 2007," says Suzanne Buchta, a managing director from BofA Merrill Lynch's debt capital markets division. "Since then we have led other green bonds for World Bank, KEXIM ...

ACSI: Average fixed CEO pay declined in 2012

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
Average CEO fixed pay in the top 100 companies fell for only the second time in 11 years, but average CEO pay is still 67 times more than the average Australian salary, according to new research from the Australian Council of Super Investors (ACSI). ...

UN Global Compact designs equities index that outperforms

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... sustainability practices and stock performance, there appears to be an exciting correlation," said Georg Kell, executive director the UN Global Compact. "Moreover, the results may also reflect the fact that sustainability performance is a factor that ...

Climate Disclosure Standards Board becomes NCD supporter

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... stewardship, maintenance and restoration of natural capital in the global economy," said Lois Guthrie, CDSB executive director. "The Natural Capital Declaration's work on natural capital accounting and disclosure is vitally important to ensuring that ...