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Pangolin Associates to partner with PKF

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... pleased to have Pangolin Associates as our corporate partner," said Matthew Field, PKF director of national enterprise advisers. "Their expertise will complement our experienced climate change and sustainability team."

International human rights law impacts Australian companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... monitoring and reporting on that process." While human rights can have a "mystique" around it for corporations and their legal advisers, Nicolson compares it to other, more familiar areas such as anti-bribery or equal opportunity laws - issues that corporations ...

ESG investment analysis - answering the "so-what" question

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... "Both in the US, the [Securities and Exchange Commission], and the EU have stated they will examine the role of proxy advisers this year," Edgerton said. "That will be interesting to see how it plays out. A lot of the momentum, including with Australia ...

Australian Ethical names exec director business development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... significant challenges of an uncertain market and rapidly changing regulatory environment we see more and more investors and advisers demanding ethical and sustainable investment options," said Vernon. "Steve brings over 20 years of expertise in marketing ...

Share placements become governance issue for investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... the solution," Lawrence said. "For example, let's have the same disclosure for an entitlement offer that we have for advisers. Why not require shareholder approval for something more than 10%? That's a blocking stake. Why not require disclosure of any ...

Emerald Wrap to launch RI investment platform in March

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... administration fee of 0.428% for investment and 0.574% for super and pension. "We're predominately working with retail advisers and financial planners that have been quite active in the SRI/ethical space," Medcalf said. "The aim of the wrap is to actually ...

RIAA: responsible investment funds grew 8% in 2011

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... Australian shares, international shares and balanced funds. RIAA found that direct asset portfolios managed by financial advisers also increased in 2010/2011 to AU$1.538bn, a 5% increase over the previous year's AU$1.461bn. This was attributed to the ...

Company directors must improve shareholder communication

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... performance hurdles aren't stretching executives enough, Byrne said. Crawford noted that given the increased role that proxy advisers play in the process, and expand their communication team to provide information to investors and proxy advisers. "It ...

Green bonds form basis of new institutional investment funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... to supranational and multilateral development banks (MDBs), forming a US$12bn market. In October, State Street Global Advisers (SSgA) announced the launch of the High Quality Green Bond strategy, which offers institutional investors a way to direct fixed ...

75% of ASX100 exposed to corruption in high-risk countries

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... return and the social issue can't be readily drawn, it's going to be quite difficult for mainstream investors and proxy advisers to come up with votes and find ways to vote for it." Bribery is an issue that has varying levels of risk and exposure depending ...