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Four Australians up for election to UNPRI council

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
Four Australian signatories to the United Nations-backed Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI) are standing for election to the PRI Advisory Council. Frank Pegan, CEO of the AU$4.17bn Catholic Super, Ann Byrne, CEO of the Australian Council ...

Solaris Investment Management appoint ESG analyst

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... appointment reflects the firm's desire to further integrate ESG into its investment strategy. Solaris is a style-neutral Australian equities boutique fund manager. The firm, a UNPRI signatory, uses ESG considerations as one of its qualitative analysis ...

Institutional investors back carbon tax scheme

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... to an emissions trading scheme, allowing the carbon price to then be set by the market and permits to be traded. The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI), an industry body 41 profit-for-member superannuation funds with a collective AU$300bn ...

Investor Profile: Victorian Funds Management Corporation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... of Victoria via the Department of Treasury and Finance. Ros McKay joined VFMC as governance manager in 2009 from the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors. She speaks with The Sustainability Report about her remit and VFMC's view of ESG and ...

AustralianSuper hires investment governance manager

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
The AU$40bn AustralianSuper industry superannuation fund has hired Andrew Gray for the newly created position of investment governance manager. "This move will bolster the fund's Active Investor Program which will focus on activities that will enhance ...

PUMA's environmental P&L reporting: a model for Australia?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... of the company's environmental, social and economic impacts along its value chain, including down the supply chain. Australian experts believe that there Australia has the accounting and reporting framework to facilitate similar, ground-breaking disclosures. ...

Colonial First State Global Asset Management reports on responsible investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... responsible investment at CFSGAM. "The group then compares the responses and discloses the discrepancies. We wrote to the 35 Australian resources companies that operate in countries that are listed by Transparency International as being corrupt, and ...

Benchmarking superannuation funds' sustainability performance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... AU$6bn Local Government Super (LGS). LGS has approximately $3.1bn invested in responsible investment strategies across Australian shares, international shares, property, and the absolute return and private equity asset classes, according to the fund. ...

ASIC urges additional executive remuneration disclosures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has highlighted four areas where ASX listed companies can provide more clarity on remuneration arrangements for their directors and executives. ASIC reviewed 60 remuneration reports of ASX300 ...

Mercer: providing education and intervention on ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... you discuss how you're working on this." The standards are stringent - for example, taking the particular sub-set of Australian equities strategies, around 6-7% of all rated strategies score an ESG1. Approximately 20% of the same category rate ESG4 ...