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Investors conducting climate change risk assessments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... a good job and there is active uptake in looking at climate change with all of this various dimensions in the asset management approach, but that asset owners have a lot less clear mandate in the area, and they also haven't set the expectations highly ...

Investors alert to possible Metcash poker machine move

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... we can document it, and the level of support that we can get across our client base." Ethinvest will contact Metcash management directly, and also provided clients with information and a template letter if individual clients who are Metcash shareholders ...

US college and university endowments lag on ESG investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... but have lagged in recent years in three areas of examination - "1) the incorporation of ESG criteria into endowment management; 2) shareholder advocacy and active-ownership initiatives; and 3) the governance and transparency of ESG investment decision-making," ...

City of Melbourne EUAs extended to include property trusts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... about three to five years, max. The product that the National Australia Bank, Low Carbon Australia and Eureka Funds Management have developed for this mechanism better aligns to the nature of energy efficiency savings.... Some energy efficiency projects ...

IIGCC urges greater energy efficiency for EU property sector

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC). IIGCC represent members with a total of EUR 7.5tr in assets under management. Buildings are responsible for 40% of final energy consumption and 36% of carbon emissions in the EU, IIGCC found. Implementing ...

Foresters launches Social Investment Australia lending fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... supply the capital for that specific loan." SIA is an Australian Financial Services license holder and is the fund management arm of Foresters Community Finance. The Community Finance Fund Non-Profit is designed to meet the demand side needs of non-profits ...

Transparency International publishes anti-corruption report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... Business Advisory Board. "Experience has shown that the requirement to report encourages companies to build strong management systems supporting disclosures, and in the process improving their anti-corruption systems." See Also: Publish What You Pay ...

Farming, forestry activities proposed for CFI positive list

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... defined by the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, " intensive rotational grazing is a system of stock management that can reduce emissions from livestock, reduce the need for fertiliser, and increase the carbon content of soils and above-ground ...

Most Asia Pacific private equity investors monitor ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... investors in North America and the Asia Pacific believe that GPs need to improve their levels of transparency and risk management, while fewer European investors said that transparency and risk management needed to improve. "The Asia Pacific LPs were ...

Solomon Islands implement EITI payment disclosure standard

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... launched in 2002 and has 36 country participants. It is considered a global benchmark for natural resource revenue management.The initiative drives improved governance in both companies that operate in resource-rich countries and those countries governance ...