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James Thier retires from Australian Ethical

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... were dedicated to it. In the early days, none of the executives got paid in cash. We wouldn't have been able to find the capital and the things you needed, the people requirements like the compliance people and the legal people." Since 1986, Thier said ...

Paper guides investors to ESG investment integration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... and through supply chains, to access to scare resources. The paper also discusses possible opportunities via redeploying capital to emerging industries such as renewable energies. One of the key points the MSCI paper highlights as an argument in favour ...

R. M. Williams Agricultural Holdings to fund NT property conservation with carbon rights

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... chair of the independent committee to oversee the project. "This is a significant deal, as it is the first time private capital has been attracted to such a conservation scheme, that traditionally is the province of philanthropic ventures," he said. ...

Interview: Anthea McIntyre, Australian Institute of Company Directors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... performance. It's seen through a number of metrics, including return on equity, return on sales and return on invested capital. To give you one example of a commonly cited study that was performed in the US by a company by the name of Catalyst - it analysed ...

ACSI release governance guidelines

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... progress on meeting the objectives and targets, and how progress is measured. ACSI defines the terms of environmental, human capital resource, and supply chain management. For environmental management, it specifies "all material environmental aspects ...

Carbon price package could yield greater than expected reductions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... cleaner power. Some of the barriers include profitability - i.e., if there is a net cost associated with reducing emissions; capital constraints that push emissions reduction projects down the list of priorities; information gaps and lack of access to ...

Regnan appoint Amanda Wilson managing director

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... their unconscious biases and thinking about the skills they need. For some companies, their biggest challenge is human capital management. For others, their challenge is technology - we see companies where, really, you have to doubt that directors understand ...

FSC, ACSI release ESG reporting guide for ASX companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... issues such as toxics and biodiversity. Under the social heading, the guide addresses workplaces health and safety, human capital management, corporate conduct (e.g. bribery and corruption) and stakeholder management/license to operate. For each sub-heading ...

Institutional investors begin analysis of carbon tax impact

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... funds and pension funds, many of them have been looking at their issues at a strategic level," she said. "What having a capital markets signal does is focus the minds of institutions and to give them the ability to be more concrete about what the carbon ...

Institutional investors back carbon tax scheme

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... to assess, given they are statistical, but given the impact of a carbon tax is fairly ubiquitous for our carbon-based capital stock, it seems reasonable to expect it would boost the underlying measures by a similar amount to the headline one."