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Australian Ethical Investment board director resigns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
Australian Ethical Investment board director Justine Hickey has resigned, a decision she foreshadowed at the November 2012 AGM. Hickey was re-elected as director at the November 2012 AGM, but she advised shareholders at the time that she would not serve ...

NGOs, institutional investors seeking engagement pathways

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... acting to rebalance their portfolios in allocating more to low-carbon investments," said Julian Poulter, AODP executive director. "The objective is certainly to increase low carbon investments and by implication, divest to a degree from fossil fuels ...

Australian boards struggling with climate change adaptation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013  |  NEWS
Most large Australian companies are struggling to find strategic responses to climate change adaptation challenges, "apparently paralysed by short-term profit first thinking, uncertain political risks and a corporate culture unused to volatility and ...

GRESB hires new head of Asia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... Netherlands, Hong Kong and in Singapore. Langbroek held a number of roles with Jones Lang LaSalle - he was associate director in the strategic consultancy department and was head of research at Jones Lang LaSalle in the Netherlands, focused on identifying ...

Industry to coordinate efforts to develop impact investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... appetite to look at this type of concept and look at products but there are two challenges," said David Knowles, executive director, philanthropic services at JBWere. "One is that there aren't a lot of products out there, and more importantly at this ...

Investor questions about risks, oversight of coal seam gas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... funds are universal owners and thus exposed to these risks both directly and indirectly, said Julian Poulter, excutive director of the Asset Owners Disclosure Project. "The fund managers are wrapped up in the same gravy train and say these project provide ...

Assessing fossil fuel value in an "unburnable carbon" world

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... stage, it's unlikely that carbon emissions that be cut to the extent that we hit the 2 degree target," said Elaine Prior director/analyst carbon, environment and ESG at Citi Investment Research, the lead author of the report. "The key determinants will ...

Australian Ethical puts tobacco resolution to TOMRA AGM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... calling on the Norwegian company to cease manufacturing tobacco sorting machines. Phil Vernon, Australian Ethical managing director TOMRA manufactures reverse recycling machines and sorting systems for recycling quality control but last year bought a ...

Social Enterprise Finance Australia hires Ben Gales as CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... hired Ben Gales as chief executive officer. Gales will start on 2April and comes to SEFA having formerly worked as a director at the NSW Department of Family and Community Services and has also worked in NSW Treasury, in venture capital in the US and ...

Northern Trust launches emerging markets ESG index, fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... demand for exposure to emerging markets, particularly among our institutional investor clients," said John Krieg managing director for Northern Trust's asset management arm in Europe, Middle East and Africa, in a statement. "While many government or ...