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Solaris Investment Management augments distribution

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
Solaris Investment Management has hired Neale Goldston-Morris as investment specialist, representing the fund manager to the institutional investment market. Goldston-Morris comes to Solaris from Macquarie Securities, where he was director, head of ...

PRI commitment spurs high-level action by Neuberger Berman

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... fuelled by both internal and external considerations, said Lucas Rooney, a senior vice president at Neuberger Berman in Australia. "We noted great interest in PRI by our clients," said Lucas Rooney. " Secondly, there is a groundswell inside our firm ...

Low Carbon Australia and Quantum Power offer biogas services

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
Low Carbon Australia will work with Quantum Power, a biogas-based renewable energy company, to assist farming, abattoir and food processing industries to create energy from waste. The alliance between Low Carbon Australia and Quantum Power will bundle ...

ASIC affirms October deadline for carbon trading AFS licence

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
Institutions that intend to provide financial services in carbon units under the federal pricing regime have until the end of October to apply to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) for an Australian financial services (AFS) ...

Investors, traders welcome Australian/EU ETS linkage

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
The Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) has welcomed an announcement that Australia and the European Union will link their carbon trading schemes from July 2015. Nick Armstrong, CEO COzero The announcement by Minister for Climate Change and Energy ...

CEFC Chair Jillian Broadbent to quit as member of ASX board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... through a period of major change in financial market structure and regulation." Ridout recently joined ClimateWorks Australia's board of directors. She is a Reserve Bank of Australia board member, a director of AustralianSuper and Sims Metal Management ...

ACSI to target exec bonus disclosure, voting rights at AGMs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) will focus on increased disclosure of executive bonuses, the 'no vacancy' rule, director elections, capital raising and pre-emptive rights and poll voting as the key issues underpinning the proxy ...

Retail supply chain policies pose sustainability challenges

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
Australian retailers need to maintain cost control, including targeting supply chain efficiencies, but those efficiency gains must not come at the expense of the sustainability of the supply chain, according to a report by AMP Capital. Australian retailers ...

The UpSide Interview: Geoff Sinclair

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... of discussions with UK-based climate change economics and business experts in The UpSide: what next for a sustainable Australia? The interviews focus on topics ranging from "from leading global agreement negotiations to dealing with risk in a climate ...

Valuing environmental services as source of risk and return

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... operational and reputational risks," he said. "It would be interesting to see more broadly how the retail industry in Australia is responding to these implications, and whether there is evidence of the so-called Walmart effect in greening local and subregional ...