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Companies testing labour, human rights supply chain standards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... in corporate supply chains. The KPIs have been developed with the Fair Labor Association (FLA) and Harvard Law School's Pension and Capital Stewardship Project with funding from the Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC) Institute. The KPIs will ...

Emerald Wrap to launch RI investment platform in March

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
The Emerald Wrap, an investment, superannuation, and pension platform that will offer a range of responsible investment options, is continuing towards its planned launch in March 2012 by selecting Bendigo and Adelaide Bank as its default cash account ...

PRI signatories develop farmland principles

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... Principles were developed by eight PRI signatories - AP2 (Sweden), ABP (Netherlands), APG (Netherlands), ATP (Denmark), BT Pension Scheme (UK), Hermes EOS (UK), PGGM (Netherlands) and TIAA-CREF (USA). "Farmland operations that respect the environment ...

ACSI CEO elected to PRI Advisory Council

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... Byrne is one of six candidates to join the board. Two are asset owners -Else Bos, chief executive of investments at Dutch pension fund Pensioenfonds Zorg en Welzijn (PFZW), and Priya Sara Mathur of US pension fund The California Public Employees Retirement ...

Institutional investors begin analysis of carbon tax impact

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... Helga Birgden, head of responsible investment, Asia-Pacific at Mercer. "Through our own work with superannuation funds and pension funds, many of them have been looking at their issues at a strategic level," she said. "What having a capital markets signal ...

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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
Putting a price on carbon emissions is the only way to drive investment in cleaner energy innovation, and failing to do so would condemn Australia to becoming "an old-world, high-polluting technological backwater," Treasurer Wayne Swan said in a speech ...