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Broadbent named chair of CEFC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... 2005-2011. Moore was another appointee to the CEFC Expert Review Panel. He was the head of Bankers Trust's corporate finance business and a member of the bank's credit committee. He is on the board and audit committee of Challenger Infrastructure Fund ...

ANZ a leader in financial inclusion, with scope to expand

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... Group to perform the review. The review looked at the bank's strategy and reviewed four programs - MoneyMinded, Money Business, Saver Plus and Progress Loans and determined that the first three have performed well against the bank's strategy and the ...

Equinix Sydney facility receives LEED certification

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... such as energy savings, water efficiency and CO2 emissions reduction. Phase one of Equinix's third Sydney International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre, known as SY3, was completed in 2011 and was built to LEED standards. Phase two of the building ...

Integrated reporting a tool to telling value creation story

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... KPMG report. "Integrated reporting provides a basis to address this by re-focussing reporting around an organisation's business model and operational priorities," KPMG said in its Integrated Reporting Issue 2. "the aim is to reflect the model opportunities ...

Australian Ethical appoints Russell for administration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... Australian Ethical's 14,000 members will bring Russell's total members under administration to 355,000. "Our administration business is focused on developing innovative, flexible and customisable solutions and we've invested heavily in technology and ...

Sustainability reports a driver of action and engagement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... it's operating in and to what extent it's identified what's material in their success or otherwise in achieving their business goals. It's really important information for us as investors because it tells us the way in which the company is thinking of ...

La Trobe sustainability report discloses ESG action, targets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... against a target of 37%. However, La Trobe University also disclosed that it did not meet targets such as reducing staff business travel greenhouse gas emissions, energy consumption and water use. "We tried really hard to give an honest account of our ...

Emerging listed miners catching up on corporate governance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... areas dominated discussions with those companies' boards - board structures, executive compensation and the companies' business practices in developing countries. "We are focused on boards and the quality of boards and the independence of boards, along ...

Investors alert to possible Metcash poker machine move

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... invest in poker machines in the past was based at least in part on a commitment to promoting local communities, which its business model achieves very effectively," the letter to clients said. "(Metcash doesn't own most of the IGA and Foodworks supermarkets ...

IIRC appoints Peter Bakker deputy chair

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... of TNT into two separately listed companies - TNT Express NV and PostNL NV. Bakker is currently president of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, a coalition of CEOs from more than 200 companies, ccounting for more than US$7tr in revenue. ...