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Video Panel: Ethical Investments: Design and Communication

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
Ethical Investments: Design and Communication from The Sustainability Report on Vimeo. The Sustainability Report moderated this live panel debate in Sydney on the investment decision-making behind ethical financial products in the areas of superannuation ...

Integrated Reporting framework launched

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
The newly released International Integrated Reporting Framework could serve to improve integrated thinking and reporting about value creation over time, but concerns remain in Australia about specific legal questions over forward-looking statements. ...

Co-operatives "have role to play" in public service delivery

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
Co-operatives and mutuals have "a clear role" to play in the delivery of public services, according to a report commissioned by the Business Council of Co-operatives and Mutuals (BCCM) and bankmecu. Melina Morrison, BCCM CEO (Photo courtesy of BCCM) ...

Expanded EUAs could generate $4.5bn investment in Victoria

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... attractive investment and create over 18,000 jobs, according to new research. Scott Bocskay, CEO of the Sustainable Melbourne Fund According to the collaborative study conducted by the Eastern Alliance for Greenhouse Action (EAGA) and the Western Alliance ...

Valuing ESG risks, return potential in real assets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
Infrastructure and urban and agriculture property assets expose investors to both the risks and the opportunities of climate change and other macro-economic challenges. By investing in companies and projects that actively measure and manage the risks ...

Colonial First State GAM publishes global stewardship code

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... As one example of how CFSGAM is adopting those stewardship principles in Australia, Berrutti pointed to the fact that the fund manager has begun disclosing all their proxy votes on a vote-by-vote basis in their corporate governance and proxy voting report ...

CDP: ASX200 companies set short term goals for C02 reduction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... reduction targets with a target or a completion year further out than one year." Charter Hall Group, Commonwealth Property Office Fund, Qantas Airways and Sims Metal Management reported absolute emission reduction targets with a target year of 2016 or ...

NZ Super Fund invests in wind turbine developer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund has invested US$55 million in a US company that develops wind turbines. US-based Ogin Inc. uses aerospace technology to develop a smaller, high-performance wind turbine, the fund said. It is a privately held company. ...

Net Balance urges co-benefits approach for carbon offsets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... carbon emissions by 5% by 2020 will build on the Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) and will establish an Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF) to provide incentives for abatement activities. The CFI is integrated into the DAP, and Net Balance believes that it ...

IGCC: insto investors would park capital if CEFC repealed

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... Committee in Canberra along with other experts, including the chair and CEO of the CEFC. The IGCC represents pension funds and fund managers based in Australia and New Zealand, supports "transparent, long-term and relatively certain policies that can ...