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AXA IM brings ESG equities analytic framework to Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... than over GBP 10 billion of UK equity assets. AXA IM focused on six ESG criteria - management performance, remuneration, control, employees, environment and board - and evaluated about 250 companies within the FTSE350, excluding banks, investment companies ...

Melbourne's Vega Press declared carbon neutral

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
Vega Press, a Melbourne-based printing company, has been certified carbon neutral by Low Carbon Australia. The family-owned company employs about 70 staff and prints products including magazines, marketing materials, annual reports, newspaper inserts ...

ACSI reiterates support for NewsCorp board overhaul

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... eliminate NewsCorp's dual class share structure. "The principal of 'one share one vote' reinforces economic ownership and control" Byrne said. "The continuation of the dual class structure reduces shareholders ability to hold management accountable." ...

Retail supply chain policies pose sustainability challenges

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
Australian retailers need to maintain cost control, including targeting supply chain efficiencies, but those efficiency gains must not come at the expense of the sustainability of the supply chain, according to a report by AMP Capital. Australian retailers ...

Valuing environmental services as source of risk and return

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... operates can not only provide measures of the company's dependency on services such as water, land, biomass and climate control, but also offers information for strategic consideration of risk and return, according to Cornis van der Lugt, an environmental ...

Australian Ethical appoints Russell for administration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... new partnership with Russell, members can reap the benefits of improved accessibility and functionality and have greater control over their retirement savings." After the mandate begins in March 2013, Australian Ethical's 14,000 members will bring Russell's ...

Mercer: green bonds deserve investment consideration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
Green bonds have relatively simple structures and credit quality and yield levels similar to AAA bonds, meriting "consideration as an allocation within a fixed interest portfolio," but a lack of issuance depth is a challenge for institutional investors ...

EUAs finance $4.9m in Melbourne environmental retrofits

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
Environmental upgrade financing vehicles in the City of Melbourne have funded AU$4.9m in energy and emissions efficiency retrofit programs and are projected to save 5350 tonnes of CO2-e emissions per year, according to the Sustainable Melbourne Fund. ...

Investors call for management of fugitive methane emissions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... to develop the framework by October of this year, and are calling on companies to disclose their methane emissions and control plans under the framework, and to implement best practice and use technologies that effectively eliminate most methane emissions. ...

Investor Profile: Omega Global Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
Omega Global Investors is a specialist fixed income investment manager based in Melbourne. Omega received a nearly AU$170m mandate from the nearly AU$6bn Local Government Super superannuation fund to implement a global government bond strategy that ...