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Teachers Mutual Bank leads in community investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... Teachers Mutual Bank spent 4.55% of pre-tax profits on community investment in the last financial year, making the bank a global leader, according to the 2014 London Benchmarking Group (LBG). The 4.55% figure is AU$1.67 million of pre-tax profits for ...

INCR working group calls for green bond definitions, framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... Climate Bonds Initiative will next week meet with municipal leaders from around the world in New York City to establish a global green city bonds coalition, Davis added. Last year, Ceres launched the Clean Trillion, an initiative designed to increase ...

NSW develops first social impact investment policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... NSW Treasury. The policy was hailed by Impact Investing Australia, who said that the announcement positions NSW to be a "global leader" for its commitment to using impact investment for expanding social services. "There is a lot more detail to be fleshed ...

GRI publishes linkage document for EU ESG directive

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has released a guidance document that sets out the links between the GRI G4 guidelines and a new European Union directive that mandates companies to report on non-financial sustainability issues. Under legislation ...

Principles for Responsible Investment hire head of Africa

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
The Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) have hired Adrian Bertrand as head of Africa, networks and global outreach. Bertrand joins the PRI from the Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF) of South Africa, where he worked for four years as environmental ...

Supply chain vulnerable to climate change risk: CDP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... Canada and India are seen as needing to do more, as suppliers are reporting fewer emission reduction initiatives than the global average. "Some more advanced economies like the US are quite vulnerable to climate risk, and the level of preparedness of ...

GRI creates two leadership groups for future discussion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is forming two corporate leadership groups - one to further the international discussion on the purpose of sustainability reporting, and a second on the role of integrated reporting. The GRI has established the ...

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 ...