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Investor Profile: Omega Global Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... takes environmental, social and governance signals into consideration when making investment decisions. Mathew McCrum, director, investments, talks with The Sustainability Report about the strategy, and how ESG signals can be used to minimise volatility ...

Pangolin Associates to partner with PKF

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... mechanism. "We have had a long and trusted relationship with PKF," said Iain Smale, Pangolin Associates' joint managing director. "Formalising the partnership is timely - it benefits our clients as they face a changing carbon economy." Pangolin Associates ...

Banks' plans address Indigenous hiring, financial exclusion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... 2014, and has committed to recruiting 100 Indigenous trainees and staff each year to 2014, said Mark Hand, ANZ managing director of retail distribution, Australia, and executive sponsor of the ANZ Indigenous Action Plan. "To achieve these targets we ...

Australian Ethical Investments faces EGM board spill

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... which include Timothy Xirakis, former head of client relationships at Australian Ethical, and James Thier, a founding director of Australian Ethical, will seek to replace the board with a new slate including Xirakis, Thier, Penelope Le Couteur, Suzanne ...

Disruptive innovation, ESG factors pose media sector risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... transactions, excessive executive remuneration, etc." AMP Capital has voted against a number of remuneration reports and director elections for those companies in the media sector in which they have investments and have engaged with companies to highlight ...

Carbon price cost could have 0.1% impact on services sector

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... concluded that the overall impact at worst would be 0.1% of general ledger in the first year, said Iain Smale, managing director of Pangolin Associates. "Electricity isn't a big component of the overall spend," Smale said. "For the legal industry, it's ...

Low Carbon Australia finances $1.6m Ipswich building upgrade

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... us with finance for about 90 per cent of the total project cost," said Justin Goddard, Trident Corporation's managing director. "What we now have, is a building that has improved its value and uses significantly less energy than before, making it more ...

Perpetual to extend ESG dashboard to fixed income space

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... engagement had not brought around sufficient improvement in governance, Perpetual proposed to nominate a new independent director to the board, Robert Fraser. Lacking the support of SOL's chairman, Fraser's nomination was voted down. "It's a fairly aggressive ...

Calls for expedited reduction of SRES multiplier

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... $26 and selling at $40, which means that businesses and consumers are paying the full price." But Russell Marsh, policy director at the Clean Energy Council, told The Sustainability Report that there is no need to reduce the multiplier ahead of the June ...

Greg Bourne appointed acting chair of ARENA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... Bourne has an "extensive" background in renewable energy development and project commercialisation, and has been a former director of Carnegie Wave Energy and chief executive officer of the World Wildlife Fund Australia from 2004 to 2010. Additionally ...