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GRI, federal government, announce Pacific partnership

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015  |  NEWS
... DFAT has provided AU$1 million in funding for the partnership, which will promote sustainable trade and investment in Australia and in the region, including Indonesia, Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Papua New Guinea. The partnership will explore how sustainability ...

Human rights considerations part of trustee board obligations

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... place greater importance on the risk management and due diligence processes undertaken by superannuation trustees in Australia as well. "You can't shy away from the fact that these are complicated issues," said Sarah Barker, special counsel at Minter ...

Northern Trust makes case for combining quality with ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... months or so, and a lot of that interest is from the wealth channel and foundations and endowments." Hunstad was in Australia this week and spoke with The Sustainability Report. Last year, Northern Trust's quantitative research team published a paper ...

Newpin social benefit bond returns 8.9% in second year

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... year, restoring 66 children to the care of their families and returning 8.9% to investors, according to Social Venture Australia (SVA). Ian Learmonth, executive director of impact investing, Social Ventures Australia The AU$7 million Newpin social benefit ...

Governance Institute appoints Steven Burrell as CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
The Governance Institute of Australia has hired Steven Burrell as its new chief executive officer. Burrell is the former general manager of communications and public affairs at the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD), and will begin in ...

ASX companies report shared value strategies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... Shared Value Project (photo courtesy Shared Value Project) The Shared Value Project conducted State of shared Value in Australia 2015 in partnership with Social Ventures Australia. The Shared Value project contacted 163 companies - ASX 100 companies ...

Telstra publishes 2015 Sustainability Report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... environmental impacts." The company noted they purchased AU$6.8 billion in goods and services in FY 2105 from 4,800 suppliers in Australia and overseas, and identified resource use, waste and e-waste, energy efficiency and carbon emissions, ethics, values ...

Epuron Energy expands Uterne Solar Plant

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... operational solar assets," said Martin Poole, Epuron Solar executive Director. "Uterne is the largest solar farm in Australia with sun tracking technology which captures more energy consistently throughout the day." The Clean Energy Finance Corporation ...

HESTA creates first Reconciliation Action Plan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... Islander stakeholders. HESTA is the first superannuation fund to sign a RAP, which has been endorsed by Reconciliation Australia. "The key points for us is about building respect," said Debby Blakey, HESTA CEO. "Some of this process has been discussing ...

NZ responsible investment assets increase 10%: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... like renewable energy and low carbon. That seem to be the direction that the larger, more sophisticated, investors in Australia are going as well - multiple strategies across the entire portfolios are something we are seeing at the big institutional ...