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Mercer study to investigate shareholder loyalty rewards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... quarterly capitalism really impacts them insofar that there are more agency costs and that there's a higher level of information risk, lower firm valuations because of all the pressure put on company boards and executives to come up with the short term ...

In 2040, when growth is a memory: Josh Dowse

JOSH DOWSE  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... will peak at 2030 (but the damage will be done), the working population will peak at 2040, and GDP will peak at 2050. At the risk of repeating the sins of Alan Ramsay in his later columns, I'll quote again: "You will see that the global population will ...

Local Government Super leader on managing climate risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... global climate investment index ranking the world's largest institutional asset owners on how they invest to manage climate risk. Australia's Local Government Super (LGS) was ranked the top institutional asset onwer for its transparency and management ...

Unconventional gas development poses risks to investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... investment risks to coal seam and shale gas extraction - fugitive emissions, the use of water in coal seam gas extraction and the risk to licence to operate by companies. "Shale and coal seam gas are different, but they share some technologies and share ...

CPA Australia issues SME sustainability assurance guide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... can unlock a whole lot of internal advantages, in terms of engaging the staff in the process, finding a different view on risk management," Ghandar said. "It's a huge role to play. Assurance practitioners see across a lot of organisations, and have valuable ...

Will sustainability survive the end of the boom?

JOSH DOWSE  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... capital and also natural capital - the value of small things like the willingness of our society to accept regulation or to risk changing jobs, or the Great Barrier Reef, or artesian water, or the capacity of the atmosphere to absorb the greenhouse gases ...

Companies with carbon targets see higher reductions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
Companies that set absolute carbon emissions reductions targets are achieving reductions double the rate of those without targets, with 10% higher profitability, according to the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) Carbon Action 2012 request. CDP Carbon ...

Minerals Council of Australia implementing water accounting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... international implementation of the standards, McCombe said. See Also: Using water accounting to measure, manage financial risk Photo via Wikimedia Commons

IIRC publishes integrated reporting prototype

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
The International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) has released the prototype of the International Integrated Reporting Framework (IR), outlining concepts and principles to IR. The prototype framework establishes guiding principles and content elements ...

Woolworths poker machine vote fails, but push to continue

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... the wider lesson is about the power of social media and the vulnerability of the companies to be exposed to reputational risk, should a group decide that they want to go after it on an issue," she said. See Also: Shareholders to face activist lobbying ...