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Universities "fail" on climate risk mitigation: AODP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... mitigation strategies at all, according to the Asset Owners Disclosure Project (AODP). AODP has launched the 2014-2015 Global Universities Index (GUI), which asked universities around the world to disclose their strategies for managing the financial ...

Looking ahead to sustainability trends in 2015

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... environmental and economic perspective on the short medium and long term?" At the same time in 2015, there will be the global transition to the Global Reporting Initiative's G4 standard - all organisations using GRI now have to apply G4 standards to ...

LGS appoint two to investment committee

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... strategies, alternative assets and dynamic asset allocation across market cycles. Swift comes to LGS from API Capital, a global equities funds manager. He was previously head of BT Investment Management's multi-strategies team. "The LGS Board has committed ...

Northern Trust to open asset management in Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... Australia and New Zealand. Northern Trust Asset Management's offering will leverage off of existing mandate wins to manage global equities portfolios with ESG screens, Singh said. "We've been appointed by LUCRF and NZ Super, and that gives us the credibility ...

The Global Impact Investment Network Appoints new CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) has appointed Amit Bouri as chief executive officer. Amit Bouri, CEO, the Global Impact Investing Network Bouri is a co-founder of the GIIIN and commenced work at the GIIN in early January of this year. The ...

GRI launches Reporting 2025 initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has launched Reporting 2025, a series of interviews, videos and analysis papers to identify issues that are or should be on companies' agendas and public reports. Nelmara Arbex, GRI chief advisor on innovation in ...

GRESB appoints two non-executive directors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) has appointed representatives from Norges Bank Investment Management and NAREIT as non-executive directors to its board. Mie Holstad, Chief Administrative Officer at Norges Bank Investment Management ...

The Sustainability Report's top articles of 2014

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... in 2013, but less than a third of those companies are reporting on the impact of those investments, according to a new global report by KPMG International. World Bank issues $300m Australian Kangaroo Green Bond The World Bank has issued a AU$300 million ...

Investment and the art of political maintenance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... portfolio, and that brings the issue of systemic risk into that discussion," he said. "There are systemic issues - the global financial crisis, the tech bubble in 2000, climate change, etc., if you are exposed to those sorts of things, your individual ...

Canada adopts mining payment regime, Australia next?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... 2015, Spoors said. If Australia does not implement similar transparency standards, it risks being out of step with other global markets, she said. "There will be asymmetry if there aren't requirements for ASX companies to disclose, or companies don't ...