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Westpac, CBA raise $10 million for Benevolent Society SBB

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... the basis of the bond's return calculation. "Measuring the progress has been a tricky one, because you have to have a control group," Sandy Blackburn-Wright, the then-head of social innovation at Westpac told The Sustainability Report in June, when The ...

Nippon Gas buys stake in COzero

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... energy management technology platform to monitor and report on energy usage. "EnergyLink is a real-time monitoring and control system for anyone spending $20,000 or more on power per year," Armstrong said. "It's really kind of a low-cost alternative ...

PRI: ESG factors material to sovereign bond creditworthiness

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... gauging political risk, those risks were underestimated. "The working group felt that Moody's, S&P and Fitch, which together control about 95% of the global market for credit ratings, underestimated or overlooked the importance of corruption," the paper ...

Corporate governance guidelines on agenda ahead of AGMs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... performance, or failure; [and] full vesting of options and performance rights in the event of a takeover or change of control in the company, irrespective of how far into the vesting period the options are and whether or not performance hurdles have ...

HSBC finds US$364 billion in climate themed bond issuance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... resilient themes - transport, energy, finance, buildings and industry, agriculture and forestry and waste and pollution control to derive the list. Transport bonds dominated the list of climate-themed bonds, representing 79%. Clean energy and climate ...

Gaps in retailers' labour and human rights policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... to the methodology that Regnan developed, all of these subsectors had greater risk exposure than they had policies to control those risks. "There is no consistency to disclosures or policies," McIvor said. "The approaches are quite disparate - even within ...

GHG efficiency projects increase cities' finances and health

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... energy supply issues. This is where the power of the city really has an impact, because a lot of cities don't necessarily control the source of their energy supply, or they have some power but not a lot, so they're at the mercy of private sector providers ...

Westpac, CBA, Benevolent Society launch social benefit bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... the basis of the bond's return calculation. "Measuring the progress has been a tricky one, because you have to have a control group," Blackburn-Wright said. "From a social work perspective, it's tricky to withhold care, but there's no other way to tell ...

Citi analyses impact of carbon price repeal on ASX companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... report said. "Instead, we expect the bill to be delayed and then rejected in the Senate." If the Coalition does not gain control of the Senate in the election, and the ALP and Greens continue to oppose repeal, there would have to be a double dissolution ...

Investor questions about risks, oversight of coal seam gas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... sources, and hinge on whether a breach of an environmental licence to produce is cause by an event beyond the reasonable control of the supplier or if it is the result of negligence, Anderson said. "If the reason the license is breached is a force majeure ...