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ACSI lists ASX sustainability reporting leaders, laggards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... reporting on sustainability factors, more than 40% of those companies still rate in the bottom two categories of the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI)'s annual review of sustainability disclosures. ACSI has issued seven reports on ...

Good Shepherd Microfinance to open SA Good Money store

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
Good Shepherd Microfinance is going ahead with plans to establish a Good Money store in Adelaide to provide access to microfinance products, financial counselling and other services to financially excluded people. Good Shepherd Microfinance CEO Adam ...

Christian Super to merge with Australian Christian Super

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
Christian Super will merge with Australian Christian Super in October, the fund has announced. "We get a strategic increase in our membership - an increase of 20% - which is fantastic," Peter Murphy, CEO of Christian Super, told The Sustainability Report. ...

ARENA provides $11 million grant to Carnegie Wave Energy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has granted AU$11 million to Carnegie Wave Energy 's CETO 6 project. The funding will support Carnegie Wave's progress towards commercialisation of its CETO wave energy technology. CETO units are large ...

University of Sydney Business School adopts CAER research

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... worked with CAER in a joint project with the Net Balance Foundation, applying the "creating shared value" model to Australian companies, said Stewart Jones, professor of accounting at the Business School. Jones was "instrumental" in the new initiative ...

ACSI: companies paid premium for rights issue underwriting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... than AU$170 million for underwriting of rights issues between 2010 and 2012, according to research conducted by the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI). ACSI conducted benchmark modelling of what underwriting services should cost companies ...

GRI undergoing governance process to become standard setter

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... governments and regulatory bodies of the GRI's standard setting role. GRI Focal Point Australia recently hosted a webinar for Australian stakeholders to outline the process and invite feedback. "The G4 guidelines were established with the intention of ...

Northern Trust's Bowers on ESG and funds management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... we do that with the asset that we have and investing in a responsible manner," he said. Northern Trust entered the Australian market with its asset servicing business after winning the mandate as custodian to the Future Fund and has brought its asset ...

Superannuation fund investments will shape future economy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... assets managed by superannuation funds on behalf of its members will increasingly become a source of finance in the Australian economy in future, and superannuation funds will inevitably make broad impacts on the shape of the Australian economy, according ...

Climate Bonds Initiative proposes green property standards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... genuine contribution to the transition to a green economy we need to head off catastrophic climate change." Several Australian stakeholders participated in the Green Property Technical Working Group, including Cath Bremmer of ANZ, Niall McCarthy of the ...