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CEFC receives new investment mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
... measure of investment flexibility necessary to build a portfolio that in aggregate has an acceptable but not excessive level of risk appropriate to the sector," said Jillian Broadbent, Clean Energy Finance Corporation board chair, in a statement to the ...

Investors question payday lenders at AGMs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... other legislation governing standards for responsible lending. We also note that compliance with these regulations presents risk for shareholders in the company." Cash Converters provided a verbal response to Walsh's questions at their AGM, while Money3 ...

Panel discussion: Investing and human rights

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
Human rights are a growing concern for investors around the world, and investors are looking how to manage human rights exposures in their investments, as well as how to positively impact and improve on areas such as education, healthcare and safety. ...

Global Investors sign Paris Green Bonds Statement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... Investor Group on Climate Change has signed on as a support of the statement, along with Ceres Investor Network on Climate Risk. The Climate Bonds Initiative coordinated the Paris Green Bonds Statement. "Enormous opportunity exists to deploy green bond ...

ACCSR: Companies lack strategies to manage human rights risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... that they have a responsibility to do the right thing, and that violating human rights norms and standards carries a growing risk. "Australian business is waking up to the importance of human rights protections within supply chains," said Leeora Black ...

South Australia passes building upgrade finance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
The government of South Australia has passed legislation to establish environmental building upgrade finance allowing commercial property owners to access finance to retrofit buildings to improve water, waste and energy efficiency. Scott Bocskay, CEO ...

Governance Institute appoint Simon Pordage president

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... productivity and on-strategy achievement. "That will involve encouraging all organisations to 'join the dots' on their culture, risk management, strategy-setting and communication frameworks and to cascade them effectively, so that everyone in the organisation ...

Future Super goes carbon neutral

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... and purchased offset credits with South Pole Group. "There's a business case for being fossil fuel free, and a case about risk and the management of stranded asset risk," said Simon Sheikh, managing director of Future Super. Future Super is funding the ...

Mercer speaks on managing future risks, climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... risks, and the physical and political and the economic implications of them." These megatrends require thinking about future risk, which is not always captured well by classical economics and modern portfolio metrics, which are reliant on using historical ...

Mining companies not adequately managing carbon risk: CDP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... of the large miners - nine of 11 - oppose new climate regulation, and CDP calculates that US$10 billion in earnings is at risk across the 11 companies if a carbon price of US$50 per tonne is introduced. "As the world prepares for a binding climate deal ...