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PGIM charts rise of corporate "profit with purpose" mindset

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... reporting to drive ESG outcomes," Hyat said. "There is a wide variance in methodologies and reporting of ESG data around the world. It tends to be sparse, lagged, sourced from a wide array of voluntary disclosures often surveys and interviews, and companies ...

Wilderness Society links deforestation to beef production, supply chain risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... data ascribed 72% of national deforestation in 2016 to grazing." The Wilderness Society noted that Australia is among the world's largest beef cattle producers. The national beef cattle herd in 2017 was around 26 million head - with 55% of all agricultural ...

Coca Cola, WWF-Australia, farmers mark 10 years of Project Catalyst

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2018  |  NEWS
More than 130 Queensland sugarcane farmers are participating in a partnership between Coca-Cola and the World Wide Fund for Nature Australia (WWF-Australia), which provides funding to study innovative and more sustainable farming techniques to positively ...

Engagement a tool for investment stewardship: RIAA conference

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2016  |  NEWS
... close to home. I understand why - the fact is that the Australian market has a more domestic bias than other markets in the world. Now, if we can believe the experts, that bias is going to lessen over the next several years in that your portfolios will ...

Mercer speaks on managing future risks, climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... (COP21) where there is a clear focus on engaging private finance to meet the adaptation and mitigation needs to keep the world on a capped path to a 2 degree limit on warming. "For 20 years, governments have been somewhat unsuccessfully negotiating," ...

Ethinvest rallies support for BHP Billiton board candidate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... Ethinvest said in a letter to clients that his experience would be necessary to BHP Billiton given the fact that it is the world's largest resource company with significant holdings in thermal coal and shale oil assets. "We heard that Ian Dunlop was ...

Local Government Super selects SSgA for equities mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... because of the concentrated nature of the market. He noted, for example, that applying an ESG screen and overlay to the MSCI World index still leaves a wide investible universe. "What we do in the international equities portfolio, my gut feel is that ...

Developing methods for monitoring impact investment returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... survey into the impact investing sphere - Perspectives on Progress. The 99 responding organisations from locations around the world, including Oceania, reported a total of US$8bn in impact investment commitments in 2012 and projected commitments of US$9bn ...

Investment in programs for Aboriginal women and girls needed

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... programs provided by charitable organisations, Doyle said, but the analysis and conclusions have applicability in the business world. "The for-profit, non-profit and government sectors all have a role to play in change," Doyle said. "The role of the ...

Investor Profile: Omega Global Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... proceeds have to be used in green projects or climate-change related projects or green related projects. For example, the World Bank Green Bond provided funding to the Colombian public transport system. They were using a lot of diesel busses, so the ...