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Investment and the art of political maintenance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... members' outcomes in retirement, and it also means that funds have to maintain their license to operate. Industry-wide collaboration and lobbying "The superannuation system in Australia is a community system, so it must meet those fiscal needs in terms ...

RIAA panel discusses tackling ESG duties, opportunities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... investment opportunities. If you're looking for growth in utilities, look at solar and look at wind." Scale and collaboration matters in other areas of ESG-related response - Gordon Hagart, chief executive of the Australian Council of Superannuation ...

Barclays, MSCI launch green bond index series

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... director and global head of equity research at MSCI. "The Barclays MSCI Green Bond Index family demonstrates how this collaboration can support the development of this important new market and provide investors with benchmarks for performance measurement ...

Demand for responsible investments a call to action: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... major issues such as the movement pushing fossil divestment and considerations of climate-related risks, investor collaboration around corporate engagement issues and the growing interest in impact investment as a theme, O'Connor said. The growing acceptance ...

Climate Bond Standard to establish water investment criteria

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... Kidney, Climate Bonds Initiative chair The working group was brought together by the Climate Bonds Initiative, in collaboration with Ceres, the Water Resources Institute and CDP, and includes representatives from organisations including the OECD, Asia ...

CDSB publishes final draft of expanded framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... practices with which business is already familiar, standardizing reporting of environmental information through collaboration and by identifying and coalescing around the most widely shared and tested reporting approaches that are emerging around the ...

CSIRO hire Larry Marshall as chief executive

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... ensures that it continues to provide advice of the highest quality to Government as well as provide best practice collaboration with the private sector." McKeon thanked current Dr Megan Clark, current chief executive, for her leadership of CSIRO for ...

Mercer to analyse climate change portfolio risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... said Helga Birgden, head of responsible investing for Asia Pacific at Mercer. "The central objective of this 2014 collaboration is to develop robust, transparent and relevant climate change scenarios and risk factors to assist partners in implementing ...

Challenges, opportunities in Australia's energy future

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... Graham, chief economist, CSIRO's Energy Flagship. CSIRO recently undertook analysis in The Future Grid Forum with the collaboration of a number of stakeholders and generated four scenarios for retail consumption and interaction with utilities, each of ...

IIRC considers assurance of Integrated Reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... bringing our experience in setting high quality standards to the integrated report." IRBA led an Assurance Technical Collaboration Group, which prepared the paper, IIRC said. "The IIRC does not aspire to become a standard setter in assurance," said Paul ...