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AWE reports lower GHG emissions, underlying loss for 2011FY

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... for the 2011 financial year. In its fourth sustainability report, AWE, which currently has oil and gas interests in Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Yemen and the US, noted that it is "well positioned" for the implementation of the New Zealand Emissions ...

IGCC working group to engage with green finance banks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
The Investors Group on Climate Change (IGCC)'s new Low-Carbon Finance Working Group will play a stakeholder role with "green" financing institutions both domestically and overseas, consulting with the institutions being established by governments to ...

Environmental Upgrade Agreement for Melbourne property

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... and building management system upgrade, according to a media announcement by the City of Melbourne. NAB, Low Carbon Australia and Eureka Funds Management developed the EUA finance product. "The funding solution allows City of Melbourne to dually incentivise ...

Investor groups call for climate change policy action

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
Three leading investor groups on climate change, including the Investor Group on Climate Change Australia/New Zealand (IGCC), have called for policy action to stimulate private sector investment into climate change solutions that can create jobs and ...

ACSI reiterates no vote for News Corp board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) has advised Australian superannuation funds to vote against members of the News Corp Board at the company's annual general meeting in Los Angeles on Friday. "News Corp board should comprise a ...

Community finance draws eye of institutional investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... hard to bench mark that in the marketplace because it's apples and oranges." Returns are pegged to the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) cash rate, Drew said. "On average, the returns sit between the 4% and 6.5% mark," she said "A lot of our returns are ...

Number of women on boards climbs slowly, ACSI finds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
The number of women directors in the ASX100 continued to climb slowly in 2010, accounting for 26% of new non-executive directors and 12.2% of all directors, up from 11.1% in 2009, according to research by the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors ...

Miscommunication hampers institutional vote engagement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... the process. "I don't believe that there is an issue with directors," Argus said. "I think by and large directors in Australia go out of their way to talk to individual shareholders as much as they possibly can. Where it breaks down, is where an investment ...

Business, investors get certainty as carbon package passes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... seminars in London about the legislation and said that there was interest from banks and investors about investing in Australia. "There was a lot of interest in that," he said. "Actually, I think you'll see a lot of overseas inters in participating in ...

Analysing the link between women directors and corporate returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... candidates, and women on multiple boards, these women can be more choosey and picking and choosing more successful companies." Australia isn't the only country to experience this phenomenon. According to a series of studies conducted by non-profit Catalyst ...