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UCA Funds Management names fossil fuel exclusion stocks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... Management announced its fossil fuel policy, which stipulates that it will not directly invest in companies involved in mining and/or exporting thermal coal, extracting or refining unconventional oil and extracting and exporting of unconventional methane ...

IGCC launches Perfect Storm Pension Fund video project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... that they might consider as part of their portfolio structure and approach," Birgden said. "Many trustees could also be mining their investment manager expertise in this area a great deal more, and the agents that support investment managers as well ...

SVA provides $800,000 financing to Indigenous company

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... aimed at assisting the company scale operations after securing an AU$5 million contract to deliver cleaning services to mining services company Thiess. Thiess is the principal contractor to QGC in its gas project cite in Queensland's Surat Basin. The ...

Ethical Investment Advisers launches fossil-fuel free SMA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... Advisers Mid-Cap SMA screens out fossil fuel investments, including oil, gas, coal and coal seam gas, tobacco, uranium mining, and weapons, and holds companies in areas including aged care, sustainable property, healthcare, renewable energy, medical ...

UCA Funds Management sets exclusions in fossil fuel policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... Equities Portfolio. The fund manager's fossil fuel policy stipulates that it will not directly invest in companies involved in mining and/or exporting thermal coal, extracting or refining unconventional oil and extracting and exporting of unconventional ...

RepuTex: DAP could achieve more reductions than CPM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... growth from the sectors that would really grow in emissions through to 2020 - primarily the natural gas sector and the coal mining sector." The government would also have to establish a secondary market for companies to trade offsets with each other ...

Push continues for Australia to adopt mining payment regime

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
Canada has gone one step closer to establishing a payment disclosure standard for its listed mining companies, with civil society groups in Australia increasing the focus on seeing a similar regime introduced here. Last week, a multi-stakeholder Resource ...

Paladin Energy, Swala Energy join EITI Supporting Companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
Australian companies Paladin Energy and Swala Energy and seven other oil, mining and gas companies have recently joined the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) as supporting companies. According to the EITI, 85 companies around the ...

Remuneration consultant disclosure regime questioned

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... smaller companies, which is probably not particularly surprising," Lawrence said. "Smaller companies, particularly smaller mining companies tend to pay less. Either they're more focused on cash, or maybe because what they pay for is data, and they've ...

More Australian companies report corporate responsibility

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... 2011, the last time the survey was conducted. The report found that there has been significant increases in the number of mining sector companies that provide corporate responsibility reporting - 83% this year, compared with 67% in 2011. There has also ...