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Resource constraints could render pension funds insolvent

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... response to carbon emission is strong, the industries that would be worse off include fossil-fuel industries such as coal mining, crude oil and gas extraction, petroleum refining and gas utilities, and carbon-intensive primary and manufacturing industries ...

Unconventional gas development poses risks to investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... varied. What we encourage them to do is to really understand what the risks are and all of the teams have expertise in mining and oil and gas, so can apply that to understand the risks and the opportunities as well."

Minerals Council of Australia implementing water accounting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... components. The framework allows you to communicate water use in a consistent way to stakeholders." To reflect the fact that mining and minerals extraction companies have varying capacities to integrate additional reporting standards, the MCA water accounting ...

Sustainable development and Australia in the Asian Century

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... we're going to have to grow the capacity. Some of that is protection of food growing areas, which have competition from mining and urbanisation as well." Lauber Patterson points to other areas of the Clean Energy Future legislative package as an area ...

CDP: increased water risk awareness, lagging board response

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... reporting collective action. The report cited an example of BHP Billiton, which reported that the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is testing a framework for water reporting and accounting, which is being developed by the Minerals Council ...

AXA IM brings ESG equities analytic framework to Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... how companies treat their employees." Again, the AXA IM research found that based on an evaluation of UK oil and gas and mining companies, those companies with the best employee socres returned 21% on an annualised basis between 2009 and 2012, and the ...

ACCSR: Governance and transparency material issues

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... as part of materiality assessments for 11 sustainability reports put out by eight companies between 2010 and 2012 in the mining, energy and financial services industries. Although the review focused on the mining, energy and financial services industries ...

Christian Super engaging with companies on African assets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... superannuation fund is engaging with a number of Australian companies with operations in Africa, particularly Australian mining companies with the goal of obtaining greater reporting around environmental and social issues and recent changes to supply ...

Cruelty Free Super celebrates second birthday

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... financial services, telecoms, and more generalist large caps stocks," Coates said. "We are not invested in the largest mining companies, nor in any of the supermarkets. Because we have a balanced option, we are also invested in fixed income. From an ...

ANZ, GPT Group named 2012 DJSI supersector leaders

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... September. Within the DJSI Asia/Pacific index, the largest additions include Incitec Pivot, while CSL, AMP and Newcrest Mining were all deleted from the regional index. The components to the DJSI are determined annually. The 2,500 largest companies by ...