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QIC selects Molpus Woodlands Group for timber mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... at any price. We've held off for years on this investment because we felt it was overpriced. Then the global financial crisis hit, and that brought things down."

UNPRI writes letter to UNGC leaders and laggards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... mandatory annual report that communicates their progress on corporate sustainability. "As a result of the global financial crisis, investors increasingly recognise that improved corporate disclosure of ESG issues leads to better risk management, good ...

ESG investment analysis - answering the "so-what" question

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... make-up of individual committees, those have been ongoing themes in governance areas. If we do have another global financial crisis, what happened in the last global financial crisis is that the governance failures of companies came to the fore. Again ...

ESG analysis now part of mainstream investment management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... about the headlines we've had recently. Do you remember Fukishima? Of course we do. If you remember the [global financial crisis], there's the issue of sovereign debt, and there's something that I'm always talking about, peak oil. All of these headlines ...

James Thier retires from Australian Ethical

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... establish it in the mid 80s," Thier said. "There have been some significant challenges through that time - the global financial crisis, 9/11, and there have been new products like the Climate Advocacy Fund as well. The company is now 50-odd people - ...

The impact of universal owners on sustainable investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... governments or asset owners. While governments may look to exert more influence on markets in light of the global financial crisis, changes in asset owner behaviours are needed alongside any regulatory response." The development of sustainable investing ...

Integrating ESG to enhance quantitative-style investment analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... documentation," said Michael Salvatico, Vice President at MSCI ESG Research in Sydney. "As we saw through the global financial crisis, the information in those indicators was not enough to stop those disasters from happening. They're backward-looking ...

Sustainability reporting: the drive towards integration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011  |  NEWS
... been hampered by a number of factors, including a lack of broadly used standards and the impact of the global financial crisis, which impacted on time and money that managers could devote to implementing ESG reporting protocols. But with leading ASX-listed ...
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