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Business begins unwinding of carbon tax arrangements

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... confidence," said Rowan Foley, general manager of the Aboriginal Carbon Fund, in written comments to The Sustainability Report. "Without the carbon price it will be much harder to make the case to start projects - this will hurt all carbon agribusinesses ...

Quantifying intangible assets to manage, drive company value

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... presenting the SIVA model in an ESG workshop organised by GTQ International in Sydney in September. The Sustainability Report is a media partner of GTQ International. "SIVA uses a limited number of quite simple steps and connecting points to build what ...

Global Reporting Initiative hires chief of staff

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
​​​The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has created the new position of chief of staff and hired Tuulia Syvanen for the role. As chief of staff, Syvanen will coordinate strategy development and monitoring and ...

ACSI lists ASX sustainability reporting leaders, laggards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
Although 85% of ASX200 companies provide some level of reporting on sustainability factors, more than 40% of those companies still rate in the bottom two categories of the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI)'s annual review of sustainability ...

Christian Super to merge with Australian Christian Super

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... our membership - an increase of 20% - which is fantastic," Peter Murphy, CEO of Christian Super, told The Sustainability Report. "The second thing is that we get the potential to grow our fund organically. The Australian Christian Churches have been ...

GRI undergoing governance process to become standard setter

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is reorganising its governing bodies to strengthen its role as a standard setter for sustainability reporting. The changes will result GRI separating out its advocacy work from the standards-setting work and lead ...

Northern Trust's Bowers on ESG and funds management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... officer for Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific at Northern Trust Asset Management, met with The Sustainability Report while in Australia this week. He traced asset owners' interest in managing ESG exposure as a risk management approach ...

Superannuation fund investments will shape future economy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... Gordon Noble, senior portfolio analyst, Inflection Point Capital Management Noble recently spoke with The Sustainability Report regarding his role with Inflection Point, a boutique investment firm with operations in London and Paris. It has established ...

Farmland attractive to super funds, but liquidity a concern

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... globally," Noble said in a speech to the Victorian Farmers Federation Conference, which Noble provided to The Sustainability Report. "... The global understanding of the megatrends I have described has led pension funds to allocate investment to farmland. ...

Foresters Community Finance, InterFinancial to partner

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... recapitalisation process, and this was the first step of that recapitalisation process," Keehan told The Sustainability Report. "Ultimately, it gives us a real say in the direction of SIA, and we do recognise that this is an opportunity as well to be ...