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Fund managers assess retailers' risks in Bangladesh

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... incidents like Rana Plaza can pose a reputational risk to the companies, but can also pose business risks in terms of production delays and quality issues. Although Australian retailers on their own can't solve the problem of worker safety and conditions ...

VicSuper, SAS Trustee Corporation to divest from tobacco

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... AU$82 billion Future Fund voted to divest holdings. The Future Fund owns stock in 14 companies in involved in tobacco production, with a combined worth of approximately AU$222 million at the end of December 2012 - 0.3% of the value of the Future Fund. ...

ESG risks impact transport sector earnings, share price

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... people to you, for example. That's one of the indirect costs, but it's hard to quantify that." Indirect costs include production disruptions and lower productivity, brand damage, negative impact on staff engagement, and corrective costs and damage to ...

Transition to sustainable palm oil needs "significant work"

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... quarters of the palm oil consumed globally, while China, the EU-27 and Indonesia are the major world consumers. Palm oil production has advantages as a product - a competitive price, product flexibility, limited processing requirements, greater yield ...

Investor questions about risks, oversight of coal seam gas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... have not been any recent, fundamental changes to the identified environmental and social risks of coal seam gas (CSG) production, but there are growing concerns over the risk of fugitive gas emissions and the impact on water supply and if regulatory ...

Assessing fossil fuel value in an "unburnable carbon" world

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... fuels overall - with 7.7% of the ASX200 market capitalisation relating to oil and gas, 1.5% related to thermal coal production- which Citi sees as potentially at greatest risk - 2.0% to coking coal and the remaining 2.8% to "related businesses." The ...

Australian Ethical puts tobacco resolution to TOMRA AGM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... their CEO, expressing concerns about the purchase and asking the company to wind down their indirect involvement in the production of tobacco products. TOMRA wrote back and declined to do so, Vernon said. Australian Ethical has put up the shareholder ...

Low Carbon Australia finances Golden North project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... "These refrigeration upgrades are expected to halve the time it takes to harden ice cream, and allow us to increase our production capacity. This will enable us to pursue new business opportunities, and help us create more local jobs." The refrigeration ...

IGCC releases reports analysing climate change impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... scope one emissions, but while you can reduce emissions from oil and gas, you can't eliminate the emissions in the production oil and gas. So there are differences and similarities." Although the IGCC reports pick out the varying ways that climate change ...

Future Fund excludes tobacco producers from portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... investment portfolio, the Board of Guardians has announced. The fund owns stock in 14 companies in involved in tobacco production, with a combined worth of approximately AU$222 million at the end of December 2012 - 0.3% of the value of the Future Fund. ...