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CEFC moves to Sydney as industry prepares for its launch

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... in terms of leveraging the financing and establishing these technologies. Then, often with clean energy investments, the risk/return ratio is problematic because you're dealing with new technology.... Also, and I think this is consistent with the views ...

Publish What You Pay campaigns for payments transparency

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... support from our colleagues around the world." In addition to the transparency argument to mandating disclosure, there is a risk management and investment perspective as well. In addition to PWYP Australia, organisations such as the Australian Council ...

Working group to develop Sharia-compliant green securities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... Office, the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC), the Carbon Disclosure Project, and the Ceres Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR). It has an industry working group to provide advice into the eligibility criteria - the working group includes International ...

GRI releases oil and gas sector guidance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has released a new guidance for the oil and gas sector, providing a framework for disclosure of sustainability performance on metrics including environmental management, health and safety and emergency preparedness. ...

AMP Capital, VFMC publish 2011 proxy voting record

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... also led to voting against a particular appointment, McKay said. "One of the main reasons that we vote against is from a risk management perspective and the capacity of directors to fulfil their duties," she said. "We do talk to companies about this ...

FTSE launch carbon risk indices for Australia, Europe and Japan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... investors have demonstrated an appetite for using alternative index weighting methodologies, including the incorporation of risk based approaches," said David Harris, director responsible investment, FTSE Group. "At the same time they are under increasing ...

IGCC and others launch second global investor survey

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... with the European Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) and the North American Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR), launched the 2012 Global Investor Survey on Climate Change, which will assess institutional investors' response ...

LGS select MSCI for ESG and carbon research, monitoring

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... "Local Government Super believes that a well-developed responsible investment strategy can both assist in generating long-term risk-controlled investment returns, while also aligning ourselves with our members' environmental and social concerns," said ...

Corporate Social Responsibility as driver of innovation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) can be a vehicle for innovation and not just risk mitigation, and the challenge for CSR practitioners is to find the areas where businesses can use social needs as a source of profit generation. The Australian Centre ...

Leightons under investigation over payment disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... Leighton that they are going to be exposed and they need to be proactive and on the front foot in terms of managing that risk as best they can," he said. "I think that the harmonisation of these sorts of things will be driving a lot of activity in this ...