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Not for Podcast: Discrediting Online Gambling

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2016  |  NEWS
... Australia News. The Sustainability Report partnered with Pro Bono Australia News to follow a group of responsible investors, consumer rights advocates and financial counsellors who are campaigning to get the major banks to cut the credit. Members from ...

AMP Capital, CSIRO back renewable energy tech startup Evergen

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2016  |  NEWS
... optimised to use the energy consumption of the home; we can basically try to provide the best benefits to the actual consumer. Evergen is about energy experience and we want to try to do this so that we don't interact with the people in the home. We ...

Renew Financial on PACE, US residential renewable energy market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2016  |  NEWS
... legislation in California whose original language would have been very damaging to PACE here, but ended up being a strong consumer protection bill that focuses heavily on important mandatory disclosures for homeowners. We hope that bill will become law ...

EY, UN Global Compact evaluate state of sustainable supply chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2016  |  NEWS
... supply chain practices and investments not been uniform across all Australian industrial sectors, Jeyaretnam said. The consumer products, financial services and telecommunications sectors have led the way in embedding sustainability in supply chains ...

Banks, fund managers developing ethical cash products

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2016  |  NEWS
Investment managers and banks are focusing their attention on cash as an asset class that can be developed into responsible investment and ethical cash products, driven by retail demand and core business strategy. Sasha Courville, head of social innovation ...

Regnan reports results of 2015/2016 engagements

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2016  |  NEWS
Engagement and ESG research specialist Regnan had 90 engagements with 42 ASX-listed companies during the 2015/2016 financial year. Amanda Wilson, managing director, Regnan Regnan has published its annual report, detailing its activities and impacts ...

New Zealand responsible investment tops NZ$78bn: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... quietly shifted a significant portion of the investment industry to invest responsibly. Now, the early signs are that consumer demand is taking off with implications for all parts of the finance sector across advisers, banks, KiwiSaver providers and ...

Natural Capital Protocol launched worldwide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... mining and minerals processing, property and construction, and even the likes of industrial manufacturing, retail and consumer products and tourism," Petersen said. "In each case, you'll have companies looking at this from a supply chain perspective ...

Responsible investment AUM tops AU$630 billion: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... professionally managed in Australia "What's been confirmed in the data this year is that there is a real step-up in the consumer demand side," O'Connor said. "That's a new story. The last couple of years have seen the early signs of that, this year confirms ...

90% of ASX200 companies report on sustainability: ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... sustainability disclosure. Louise Davidson, ACSI CEO The ACSI review found that all industrial sectors except for media and consumer services now has at least one component company reporting at "leading" standard, demonstrating that environmental, social ...