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Voluntary sustainability disclosures carry legal weight

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... Andrew Beatty, a partner at Baker and McKenzie. "Companies that use those reports for PR window dressing have a significant risk exposure. What you have to assume is that what you say in the report will be evaluated by people who want to invest with ...

Five Oceans AM to run Skandia Global Equity Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... over 5% p.a. after fees since inception in 2006, said Ross Youngman, Five Oceans' CEO. "The Five Oceans World strategy is a risk managed portfolio of global equities," Youngman said. "We risk manage the portfolios in a number of ways - we don't have ...

Clean Energy Council sees CEFC as catalyst to unlock capital

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... "That's an important aspect of it. In talking to banks and financiers is that part of their frustration - and part of the risk to these projects - is that governments change polices and that is not a stable situation. We're now seeing that uncertainty ...

UNPRI writes letter to UNGC leaders and laggards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... global financial crisis, investors increasingly recognise that improved corporate disclosure of ESG issues leads to better risk management, good governance and enhanced transparency, all of which are necessary to protect long-term returns," said James ...

Japanese pension plan selects MSCI ESG index as benchmark

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... Japan ESG Index as the benchmark for this mandate. The index is based on ESG research which assesses companies' relative ESG risk among global industries. We believe that this global view, along with the transparent ESG index methodology, was a key factor ...

Government grants $1.9m for geothermal exploration study

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
National ICT Australia (NICTA) has received an AU$1.9m government grant towards a project to provide enhanced data for targeted geothermal exploration. NICTA's two-year AU$5m project will use its capabilities in machine learning in conjunction with ...

Proxy voting error results in Emeco AGM double-count

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... number o steps in the proxy voting process and the fact that there is manual processing of votes at key stages are some of the risk points in the process. "There are a lot of steps in the process and votes pass through so many hands," she said. "Some ...

CEFC moves to Sydney as industry prepares for its launch

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... in terms of leveraging the financing and establishing these technologies. Then, often with clean energy investments, the risk/return ratio is problematic because you're dealing with new technology.... Also, and I think this is consistent with the views ...

Publish What You Pay campaigns for payments transparency

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... support from our colleagues around the world." In addition to the transparency argument to mandating disclosure, there is a risk management and investment perspective as well. In addition to PWYP Australia, organisations such as the Australian Council ...

Working group to develop Sharia-compliant green securities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... Office, the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC), the Carbon Disclosure Project, and the Ceres Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR). It has an industry working group to provide advice into the eligibility criteria - the working group includes International ...