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Urgent need for social impact metrics development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... and young adults among others, according to investment and governance specialists. Dr Ulysses Chioatto, fellow at Western Sydney University and executive director-governance, SSAMM Management Consulting The development of metrics to measure and report ...

Cities provide essential collaboration: C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... tackle climate change while "increasing the health, wellbeing and economic opportunities of urban citizens." Melbourne and Sydney are members of the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group. "Cities have told us that a third of the climate action they've ...

Uncorking economic, environmental benefits of wine on tap

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2016  |  NEWS
... in the Department of Accounting and Corporate Governance at the Faculty of Business and Economics, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. His particular research interest is in environmental and sustainability management and accounting for decision ...

Sustainalytics opens Sydney office

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2016  |  NEWS
Sustainalytics, the independent ESG research and analysis firm, has opened an office in Sydney. Catalina Secreteanu, head of Australia, Sustainalytics The new office in Sydney enables Sustainalytics to "better serve its investment management and pension ...

Can sustainability considerations drive corporate innovation?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
... founding Australian representative to the UN Global Compact who is currently undertaking research at the University Technology Sydney Centre for Corporate Governance. "... Corporate governance people are becoming more aware and more interested in challenging ...

Panel discussion: Investing and human rights

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... manage and monitor human rights impacts in at a recent discussion sponsored by MSCI and hosted by AMP Capital Investors in Sydney. The panel was moderated by The Sustainability Report. The panel included Alice Cope, executive manager of the UN Global ...

RIAA calls for actions to create responsible financial markets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... Responsible Financial Markets A Preliminary Paper on Industry Priorities at its annual responsible investment conference in Sydney on Thursday. The paper calls for changes that will result in two main objectives - focusing capital on the long term "which ...

The price of climate change to impact portfolios: BlackRock

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... serious about this," said Dr Joanna Joanna Nash, research analyst in BlackRock's global Scientific Active Equity team in Sydney. "It's more than just the talking we hear about the politicians, but investors are serious. They're asking us and other fund ...

CDP publishes Aust/NZ climate leaders report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... that did not respond to CDP's climate change investor information request in 2015 included Westfield Group, Transurban, Sydney Airport, Lend Lease, Coca Cola Amatil, James Hardie Industries, AusNet Services, Bank of Queensland, Harvey Norman, BlueScope ...

Cbus Super hires new investment manager - ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... and sustainability across a large portfolio." Bradford starts in her role on 16 November and will be located in Cbus's Sydney offices. Cbus is an AU$31 billion industry superannuation fund with more than 720,000 members. See Also: Louise Davidson appointed ...