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Investor Profile: Victorian Funds Management Corporation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... our external managers about. I have also recently established a Sustainability Committee within VFMC which comprises employees from every department across the organisation. The key drivers for establishing the committee are being seen to walk the talk ...

"Two Strikes" for directors legislation passes Parliament

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... be harmful to Australian companies by creating instability and reducing flexibility, potentially disadvantaging both employees and shareholders," said AICD CEO John Colvin. AICD object to the two-strikes requirement and said that the "no vacancy" aspect ...

Investor Profile: Australian Ethical Investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... you quantified the expense of this to the fund? JT : It's probably costing us the equivalent of two to three full-time employees. We hope that over the longer term, both as we become more familiar with the process and as some of the companies react a ...

Companies investing in sustainable operations showing returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... changing the thinking within an organisation, by taking the 'low-hanging fruit' - the quick wins - an organisation can get employees engaged. Of course, we realise that the numbers need to stack up and it needs to make commercial sense long term." The ...

Rio Tinto annual report: fewer injuries, increase in GHG emission

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... to include key shareholders, investment houses, academics, non-governmental organisation, global leaders and 33,000 employees who completed the firm's global employee engagement survey. "The 2010 assessment prompted additional coverage of our Business ...

Australian companies fail on labour reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... said Richard Boele, managing director of Banarra. "It is quite remarkable that two out of 10 did not consider their employees stakeholders. Eight out of 10 reporters don't consider unions a stakeholder - and all 10 have significant union representation.... ...

UN PRI rolls out mandatory fees, expanded agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... asset classes. The fees run on a sliding scale based on assets under management for asset owners/managers and number of employees for professional service providers and top out at £6,600 (AU$ 10,292) for AUM of more than US$10bn (AU$9.5bn). Since ...

AGL wins award for sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... sustainability, we don't just think about the environment; we also think about our responsibilities to all our stakeholders - our employees, our customers, our shareholders, and the community," said Professor Paul Simshauser, AGL's chief economist and ...