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A view on Woolworths' corporate responsibility report

JOSH DOWSE  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... goals and progress, including where Woolworths has 'more to do'. This is good housekeeping - it's fair to say that the modern consumer expects to buy goods from a grocery giant that are produced with some care. Woolworths is only starting the journey ...

RIAA: responsible investment funds grew 8% in 2011

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... accompanying the report's release. "While tangible assets still play an essential role in industry, the average company in the modern economy is now more reliant upon intangible assets to create value: supply chain management, resource efficiency, product ...

Investor Profile: Local Government Super

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... integrated into the overall portfolio? PL: We come from a position that there a number of industries that cause damage in modern society and that these industries will face increasing regulatory pressures in the future. So while there was a strong moral ...

Climate change issues integrated into investment decisions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... investors such as superannuation funds have sovereign risk because they invest across an economy. "We have to recognize the modern reality that portfolio investors and especially large investors invest across the economy and thus they have an exposure ...

Integrating ESG to enhance quantitative-style investment analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... forward looking series of qualitative and quantitative measurements to augment some of the more traditional metrics of modern portfolio theory, which depend on backward looking data. "Many investors' see themselves as universal owners, and a primary ...

Swan: carbon price vital for first-rate, first-world economy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... investment in this technology is to put a price on pollution. Only a market mechanism does the job. You can have a first-rate modern economy and a carbon price, or you can have neither." Swan spoke at the Press Club in the continuing push to put forth ...