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RIAA to engage NZ investors on climate change, investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
New Zealand investment management professionals will debate climate change and unburnable carbon among other topics at the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) briefing in Auckland today. Simon O'Connor, RIAA CEO The 4 th annual Responsible ...

UCA Funds Management appoints Terry McCredden to board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
UCA Funds Management has appointed former UniSuper CEO Terry McCredden as a non-executive director. McCredden retired in July from UniSuper and has more than 30 years' experience in the financial services industry and was awarded Fund Executive of the ...

City of Melbourne looks to commercial solar installation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
Ed. note: This article has been updated with information from Cr Arron Wood The City of Melbourne and the Sustainable Melbourne Fund are reaching out to advise non-residential commercial building owners of financing options for cost-effective solar ...

Investors ask companies for information on fossil fuel exposures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
Australian investors have joined a group of 70 global investors calling on the world's top oil and gas, coal and electric power companies to assess the financial risks of climate change to their business. The Carbon Asset Risk (CAR) initiative, coordinated ...

Companies face uncertainty from timing of carbon tax repeal

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
Companies that are currently liable under the carbon pricing mechanism (CPM) face uncertainty over their compliance and potential pricing arrangements if the government's proposed legislation to repeal the price on carbon is not passed by July 2014. ...

Ethinvest rallies support for BHP Billiton board candidate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
Ethinvest is supporting a campaign to have climate advocate Ian Dunlop appointed to the BHP Board at its November AGM. Trevor Thomas, Ethinvest managing director Ethinvest, an investment advisory firm founded on ethical investment principles, is supporting ...

Property developers advised to factor in climate change risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
Australian property developers should start factoring in climate change impacts immediately or face significant financial risk, according to Net Balance. "While the local government have understood climate risk and opportunity for some time, the property ...

Inalytics, PIRC find corporate governance, share price link

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
Analysis from Inalytics and PIRC, an independent governance research and shareholder voting adviser, has demonstrated that share prices of listed companies with high governance risk performed poorly over time, whereas the share price of listed companies ...

GRI names Christianna Wood chairman of board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
Christianna Wood has been named the new chairman of the Global Reporting Initiative board, and six directors have been named to the board. Wood takes over from outgoing GRI Chairman Herman Mulder. She is a member of the board of the International Integrated ...

LGS invests in US$250 million EBRD green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
Ed note: Updates with information from Local Government Super, board appointment Local Government Super (LGS) has invested in a European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) green bond. LGS CEO Peter Lambert LGS was the only Australian superannuation ...