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Industry welcomes CEFC expert review

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... Broadbent, a board member of the Reserve Bank. Broadbent was joined by David Paradice, founder of Paradice Investment Management, and Ian Moore, who has worked predominately at Bankers Trust. The CEFC will start from July 2013 and will provide financing ...

SAM targets 2,500 companies for sustainability assessment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... long-term development of corporate value. The questions cover topics including corporate governance, risk and crisis management, human capital development and the quality of environmental and social reporting. After analysing the data, SAM selects the ...

Q&A with Nelmara Arbex, deputy chief executive, GRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... sustainability performance, governance issues become more and more important. The third working group is the Disclosure on Management Approach (DMA) Working Group. This is the part of the guidelines where companies explain their policies, their systems ...

Investors weigh meaning of social return on investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... it in a pilot examining one of their projects in India. Opportunity International Australia uses social performance management (SPM), a set of principles specific to microfinance that are used the framework for evaluating program design and oversight. ...

GRESB joins forces with GRI to push sustainability reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... institutional investors for engagement with investments, including Local Government Super, AustralianSuper and Victorian Funds Management Corporation. "For investors, benchmarking sustainability performance provides the opportunity to take into account ...

Fund manager: remuneration reports filled with "mumbo jumbo"

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... executives are compensated. Morgan was head of equities at Perpetual form 1994-2002, responsible for AU$12bn in assets under management. He then established and ran 452 Capital from 2002-2010. "As an investor or fund manager, you obviously want management ...

Santos identifies 24 material sustainability indicators

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... issues for us in 2012 include: maintaining our focus on personal and process safety; water and greenhouse gas emissions management; and successful community and landholder relationships," said David Knox, Santos CEO and managing director, in the company ...

LGS wins SuperRatings Infinity Award

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... planning to expand our sustainability criteria to the Fixed Interest portfolio." LGS has nearly AU$6bn in assets under management, and around AU$3.1bn are invested in responsible investment strategies across asset classes including Australian shares ...

FlexiGroup joins Low Carbon Australia on financing program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... heating, ventilation and air-conditioning, voltage regulation devices and power factor correction equipment, building management system optimisation and replacement, real time energy and water monitoring for buildings, refrigeration, boilers and compressed ...

Integrated reporting to provide analysis, innovation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... tell the bankmecu story," he said. "We are demonstrating our commitment to sustainability. We are improving our risk management and governance and engaging with our stakeholders." As integrated reporting rolls out through the pilot program and then ...