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UCA Funds Management to convert funds to MIS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... church with a big sign out front saying, beware - the same health and safety standards that apply to the coffee shop down the road don 't apply here [because] we're a church-owned enterprise." Registering UCA Funds Management as a responsible entity ...

CDP, We Mean Business partner for Road to Paris

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... Change Conference in December. The three groups will work to encourage companies to adopt one or more of six parts of the Road to Paris climate leadership initiatives. Thus far, Westpac and Novion Property Group are the two Australian companies out of ...

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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... elements were integrated into the project or the asset due diligence," Billimoria said. "If someone wants to develop a toll road or a power station, you have to consider the environment, you have to consider the communities you're impacting on. That ...

Westpac increases lending to cleantech, enviro services

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
Westpac Group reported increases in women in leadership roles, lending to cleantech and environmental services of AU$8 billion and new commitments around disclosure of carbon emissions as part of its 2014 sustainability report. Siobhan Toohill, Westpac ...

Co-ops, mutuals a "third way" for public service provision

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
Co-operatives and mutuals offer an alternative "third way" to complement for-profit and not-for-profit business models for delivery of public services, according to a green paper aiming to stimulate discussion on how the sector can provide innovative ...

ACCSR: Australian CSR integration is too little, too slow

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
Progress in integrating corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Australia has been too little and too slow, according to the Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ACCSR). Leeora Black, managing director, Australian Centre for Corporate ...

ASIC guide widens scope of risk, future prospect disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... is the governance side of things," Chioatto said. "The governance side of things are going to be where the rubber hits the road and where you can affect some change. You see that in these shareholder resolutions - the Woolworths GetUp! campaign, and ...

ESG integration into quantitative investment management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... thematic indices, noted Michael Salvatico, vice president at MSCI ESG Research. "We have seen investors who have gone down the road of taking a theme like alternative energy or green buildings, and built a passive index off of that," Salvatico said. ...

Senate rejects CPM repeal, business calculates liabilities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... of the CPM, and we would see it go to the new Senate. There are still a lot of ifs, buts, and maybes. The next fork in the road is what does the government's replacement policy look like." The federal government has proposed to eliminate the carbon price ...

Push continues for Australia to adopt mining payment regime

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... government "welcomed" the recommendations of the Resource Revenue Transparency Working Group. With Canada going further down the road to its mandatory disclosure regime, groups such as Publish What You Pay (PWYP) will continue their work engaging with ...