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Origin Energy endorses We Mean Business commitments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
... Investment Management, Shell, Ricoh, Siemens, Schneider Electric, Swiss Re, UCA Funds Management, Unilever, University of Sydney, Veolia, VicSuper and Westpac. The seven commitments of the We Mean Business coalition: Committed to adopt a science-based ...

Governance Institute appoints Steven Burrell as CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... Year Award. He has also been a policy adviser at the federal Treasury and trained as an economist at the University of Sydney, the Governance Institute said. "My primary aims are to ensure that we continue to provide better value to our members and subscribers ...

LGS joins Portfolio Decarbonization Coalition

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... civil servants (ERAFP) also recently joined. The existing members also include Australian Ethical Investment, University of Sydney, Church of Sweden, Fonds de Reserve pour les Retraites (FRR), Mirova Natixis, Sonen Capital, and the Toronto Atmospheric ...

Universities "fail" on climate risk mitigation: AODP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... continents, including 37 in Australia. Only three universities in Australia - Charles Sturt University, the University of Sydney and the Australian National University - received D ratings, whilst the remaining 34 received X ratings, "indicating that ...

Financial System Inquiry recommends on impact investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... to encourage further impact investing - was pushed off to a taxation white paper process. Last year, the University of Sydney published two reports - Impact Investment: Perspectives for Australian Superannuation Funds and Impact Investments: Perspectives ...

Australian National University Investment Office selects CAER

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... environmental, social and governance are increasingly on the radar of university investment teams." See Also: University of Sydney Business School adopts CAER research

Financial System Inquiry addresses impact investment market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... interim report did not go into detail on the barriers to developing and pointed to two reports published by the University of Sydney - Impact Investment: Perspectives for Australian Superannuation Funds and Impact Investments: Perspectives for Australian ...

University of Sydney Business School adopts CAER research

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
The University of Sydney Business School will utilise CAER's environmental, social and governance research, CAER has announced. Duncan Paterson, CAER CEO The University of Sydney's Business school has taking out an ongoing subscription to the CAER service ...

University of Sydney issues second impact investing report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2014  |  NEWS
A new study from the University of Sydney Business School concludes there is no legal barrier preventing trusts and foundations from pursuing impact investments, and finds that impact investing has to move past the stage of engaging with early adopters ...

Australian Ethical Investment hires head of ethics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... asset securitisation at ABN AMRO Australia. Dr Palmer received his doctoral degree in philosophy from the University of Sydney. "We are delighted to welcome Stuart to the team," said Phil Vernon, managing director of Australian Ethical. "Australian Ethical ...