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CAER, South Pole Group partner on investment services

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2015  |  NEWS
... partnership with CAER allows South Pole Group to promote their invetsemnet services, Horster said. "Regardless of the political outcome of the COP21 in Paris, it is clear that leading investors have acknowledged their responsibility and roles in addressing ...

Australia falls in EY renewable energy index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015  |  NEWS
... "threatens to paralyse the industry" in that country. India was in third place in the RECAI rankings, beause of economic, political and energy market reforms as well as ongoing foreign investment, with Germany in fourth. "Policy changes still have an ...

Aust/NZ investors committed to ESG in alt investments: Mercer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... very important. Negative reputational impacts and headline risks can flow through to the bottom line. Understanding the political and social landscape is important. There are environmental considerations as well, because these are physical assets that ...

Gordon Hagart to leave ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... goal of 30% women on ASX200 boards ACSI hire Gordon Hagart as new chief executive officer Investment and the art of political maintenance

Investment and the art of political maintenance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... is the process of governing an entity for the purpose of allocating resources. Superannuation funds are not partisan political participants in the way that elected politicians are, but funds' investment activities are impacted by politics, policy and ...

Canada adopts mining payment regime, Australia next?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... game-changer in the Australian context in the sense that it has a similar industry profile to Australia, and it has similar political leadership at the moment," she said. "The fact is that the Canadian government sees the benefit in requiring their companies ...

Combet calls for return of carbon pricing policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... as a more efficient market mechanism. Regulation is a much higher cost approach, but it is less visible in terms of political contestability. That's the sort of path that we're on at the moment - a higher cost approach." Combet acknowledged his partisan ...

Mutuals, co-ops have turnover of $104 billion: BCCM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... quote in the report. The BCCM launched the report this week, and also kicked off a Sector Blueprint which calls on the political parties to "sign up to a Mutuals Charter ensuring government policies do not neglect or prejudice the contribution of co-operative ...

Panel discusses fossil fuel divestment for super funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... Sustainability Report this week. The issue of fossil fuel divestment has recently been highlighted by the media and political reaction to Australian National University (ANU)'s decision to divest from Santos, Newcrest Mining, Iluka Resources, Sandfire ...

Addressing the human crisis of climate change displacement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... "national and international land acquisition, planned and voluntary relocation, creating new national agencies and expanding political will," which, if implemented, can reduce the scale and suffering of human displacement because of climate change. "Land ...