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UNPRI signatories name corporate ESG engagement issues

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) signatories say that executive remuneration, climate change and supply chain labour standards are "priority areas of engagement" with invested companies in the next year. These areas of engagement ...

PRI commitment spurs high-level action by Neuberger Berman

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
Global fund manager Neuberger Berman has signed the Principles for Responsible Investment, and is integrating the PRI's commitments into its operational structure, a process that is causing the firm to utilise its resources in new ways. Lucas Rooney ...

CEFC Chair Jillian Broadbent to quit as member of ASX board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) Chair Jillian Broadbent will retire from the board of the ASX as of the company's 5 October annual general meeting (AGM). Broadbent is leaving the ASX board to focus on her new role at the CEFC, ASX said in an ...

ACSI to target exec bonus disclosure, voting rights at AGMs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) will focus on increased disclosure of executive bonuses, the 'no vacancy' rule, director elections, capital raising and pre-emptive rights and poll voting as the key issues underpinning the proxy ...

Retail supply chain policies pose sustainability challenges

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
Australian retailers need to maintain cost control, including targeting supply chain efficiencies, but those efficiency gains must not come at the expense of the sustainability of the supply chain, according to a report by AMP Capital. Australian retailers ...

Valuing environmental services as source of risk and return

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
Calculating the value of the ecosystem in which a company operates can not only provide measures of the company's dependency on services such as water, land, biomass and climate control, but also offers information for strategic consideration of risk ...

ClimateWorks Australia name Hill, Ridout to board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
Former Federal Environment Minister Robert Hill and business leader Heather Ridout have joined ClimateWorks Australia's board of directors. "Robert Hill and Heather Ridout are well known and widely respected for their contribution to public policy in ...

Broadbent named chair of CEFC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
Jillian Broadbent has been named chair of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC), with Michael Carapiet, Ian Moore, Anna Skarbek and Andrew Stock also named to the CEFC board. Broadbent, a member of the board of the Reserve Bank, chaired the CEFC ...

Superannuation funds aware of ESG macro-impact

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
Superannuation funds are realising that environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors should be integrated into macro-level investment decisions, and not merely as issues in individual companies, according to boutique fund manager Solaris Investment ...

Sustainable Melbourne Fund invests in Swanston St retrofit

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
Sustainable Melbourne Fund has invested in a AU$440,000 environmental retrofit of a commercial building held by an owners corporation. Scott Bocskay The SMF investment will fund the installation of an energy efficient chiller unit at 55 Swanston Street ...