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Australian companies awarded gold in sustainability yearbook

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... assessed, RobecoSAM and KPMG said. Australia overall ranked in the top 10 countries for gold awards, coming in at number seven. Westpac, Woolworths and Stockland were awarded silver, and Qantas, NAB, Amcor, AGL, Transurban Group, BHP, Santos and Woodside ...

Developing methods for monitoring impact investment returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... commitments in 2012 and projected commitments of US$9bn in 2013. The median number of impact investment transactions was seven in 2012 and is predicted to rise in 10 in 2013, and the median amount for each allocation was US$25m in 2012 and respondents ...

Will sustainability survive the end of the boom?

JOSH DOWSE  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... per capita living standards. And our productivity has been going nowhere. In fact, it's been falling at 0.7% per year, for seven years now. Productivity may be a little misunderstood, and may be the subject of another article. In the rhetoric of our ...

Sustainable development and Australia in the Asian Century

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... worldwide and consistent with the direction that China is taking to become the green superpower of the world. China will have seven emissions trading schemes that have to be in place by the end of next year. That is what has been directed by the government ...

Operational changes needed to strengthen AGM voting: ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... resolutions at meetings of ASX300 companies during the 2011 calendar year. The research found a total of nine instances in seven companies' meetings with significant disparities between the voting instructions lodged by the participating institutional ...

ACCSR: Governance and transparency material issues

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... social/labour practices and decent work was mentioned by 71% of interviewed stakeholders. The research asked interviewees about seven broad themes, with 44 specific issues underneath. Within those specific issues, local community impacts ranked highly ...

More women, more new entrants appointed to ASX100 boards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... found that more than half of smaller companies' boards - 47 of the 88 sampled - had no women on their boards, while only seven companies in the ASX100 had no women. Overall, women made up 8.5% of board directors in the ASX101-200 boards, and 9% of board ...

FTSE adds three Australian companies to FTSE4Good indexes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... FTSE4Good index series as part of FTSE's semi-annual review of the index and ESG ratings. FTSE added 21 companies and deleted seven countries from the index series. At the same time, FTSE said it applied supply chain labour standards criteria to more ...

ASX100 CEO pay, bonuses decline

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... highest paid CEO on reported basis for 2010, CBA's Ralph Norris's AU$16.159m. The highest paid CEO in the ASX101-200 was Seven Group's Peter Gammell, on AU$4.924m. Poli's exercise of options distorted the average realised pay for bottom 10 companies ...

City of Melbourne EUAs extended to include property trusts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... developed for this mechanism better aligns to the nature of energy efficiency savings.... Some energy efficiency projects have a seven year simple payback. When financed over 10 years, as the current product allows, the project becomes becomes cash neutral ...