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NAB publishes 2013 plan for Indigenous employment, inclusion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... not to do too much of the outsourcing. Rather than us relying on group training orgs to find the trainees from the local high school, encouraging the branch managers to go out and find the kids - make more of their investment. That takes time to bed ...

IGCC releases reports analysing climate change impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
The Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) have released three reports analysing the impacts of climate change, energy cost and carbon risk on investments in the mining and minerals, property and construction, and oil and gas sectors. The likelihood ...

Government to maintain existing Renewable Energy Target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
The government will maintain the Renewable Energy Target (RET) at current levels to ensure that at least 20% of Australia's electricity comes from renewable sources by 2020, Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency Greg Combet has announced. ...

Businesses addressing climate change as strategic risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... policy action. This is also evident in the development of "green" products and services such as hybrid and electric cars, high capacity batteries, wind turbines, solar cells and more efficient jet engines. Similarly, University of Sydney Business School ...

City of Melbourne certified carbon neutral

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... sustainability doesn't end there." Melbourne City Council is also working with the city's commercial building owners and high-rise apartment residents to reduce water and energy usage and manage waste and recycling and Cr Wood also pointed to initiatives ...

RobecoSAM to use CDP questions in DJSI questionnaire

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... RobecoSAM are the de facto raters for business progress on climate change and sustainability and this development will bring high quality data together for use in the DJSI." The CDP uses its questions to produce the annual Climate Disclosure and Climate ...

Q&A with Michael Walsh, UCA Funds Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... other things about UCA FM that are quite appropriate for a modern funds manager. We have low fees, so we're not hooked on high margins. We don't pay a dollar in commissions, we don't pay performance fees. We don't pay salary performance bonuses. We're ...

CEC to partner with American Council on Renewable Energy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... Honourable Jeffrey Bleich," said Chris Freeland, Baker & McKenzie Australia managing partner. "The advancement of clean energy is high on Australia's agenda and we appreciate the opportunity to help facilitate cross-border investment in the renewables ...

Mercer: use responsible investment to reduce return leakage

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... over the journey, in the investment environment we see today," Ambachtsheer said. "The environment today is characterised by high turnover in portfolios, high turnover in managers, and leakages upstream like excessive remuneration and merger and acquisitions ...

Dalton Nicol Reid: using ESG to find sustainable earnings

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... of the UN Principles for Responsible Investment, uses ESG metrics in two ways - as part of its investment process in its high conviction equities portfolio, and in a more targeted way in its socially responsible investment (SRI) portfolio, which uses ...