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PRI hires Nathan Fabian as policy director

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... German-based telecommunications company, and as a corporate governance policy advisor to Senator Penny Wong of South Australia, PRI noted. "I'm very excited to be given this opportunity to work with the team at PRI and to further develop the policy work ...

CDP, We Mean Business partner for Road to Paris

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
CDP, the Global Compact Network Australia and WWF-Australia are collaborating to push a set of global initiatives in Australia for corporate action on climate change ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference in December. The three groups will work to ...

LGS publicly discloses proxy voting intentions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... said Peter Lambert, LGS chief executive officer. "As LGS holds shares in the majority of the top listed companies in Australia and overseas, they are entitled to vote at the shareholder meetings of most of the ASX200 companies and 500 of the largest ...

CFSGAM reports on transparency, stewardship of assets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... teams. CFSGAM has US$156.9 billion in assets under management globally, and US$US$90.8 billion of those assets come from Australia/New Zealand, the firm's biggest market. "There are three main areas where we tried to improve," said Pablo Berrutti, head ...

Victorian government boosts Good Money funding

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... 18.7% of Australian adults "rarely or never have any money left at the end of a pay cycle." People living in regional Australia are more likely to run out of money at the end of a pay cycle than people living in capital cities, with 22.7% of regional ...

Video: Fossil Fuel Divestment Exposure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... fund AP4 and Amundi, Hedging Climate Risk, as one example. The panel was sponsored by MSCI and Amundi Asset Management Australia. Moderated by Rachel Alembakis, publisher of The Sustainability Report, the panel featured Brian Scott, CEO, Amundi Asset ...

BNY Mellon offers ESG data to depositary receipt clients

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... advisory, BNY Mellon. BNY Mellon is offering this ESG service to securities issuer clients around the world, and clients in Australia have already indicated interest in the offering, said Guy Gresham, managing director, head of global investors relations ...

ASX200 ESG reporting improves, but laggards persist: ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... Davidson, ACSI CEO ACSI has issued its eighth annual report on ASX200 sustainability disclosures, Corporate Reporting in Australia, which makes assessments with the goal of "promoting continuous improvement in reporting standards and practices across ...

Local Government Super top AODP index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... only other Australian asset owners to appear in the top 10, ranking 7th, down one from last year. At the country level, Australia ranked second only to Norway in terms of assets owners responding to climate change risks. "It's a real mixed bag," said ...

Investor groups publish climate change investment guide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... feedback through the IIGCC influenced our thinking about the value of this kind of guide," Fabian said. "But also IGCC in Australia/NZ has recently taken on new members, or has some old members with new staff, and we've had feedback from these people ...