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Integrated reporting a tool to telling value creation story

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... Issue 2. "the aim is to reflect the model opportunities and challenges that affect the business - the same issue that management are dealing with on a daily basis within the organisation." The totality of business value is contained in three areas, all ...

Emerald Club and Premium Wealth Management sign alliance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
The Emerald Club has announced a strategic alliance with financial planning group Premium Wealth Management. Premium will take a 25% ownership stake in the Emerald Club, and, in a separate deal, will introduce the Emerald Club's offer to Premium's affiliated ...

Australian Ethical appoints Russell for administration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... Australian Ethical has appointed Steve Gibbs as director to fill the board vacancy. Gibbs is a director of Hastings Funds Management and chair of CAER (Corporate Analysis Enhanced Responsibility). He was formerly chair of the Responsible Investment Academy ...

ASX report shows companies' progress on gender diversity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... in which a company embodies the attributes in amber, plus has good representation of women on boards and/or senior management, evidence of progress, good data reportage and adoption of Principle 3. "At least 61% of companies are making some progress ...

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 ...