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UN Statistics Division releases ecosystem accounting system

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
The United Nations Statistics Division has developed an experimental ecosystem accounting system to quantify ecosystem services and conditions in physical and monetary terms. Although the proposed accounting system is initially intended for governmental ...

SIRIS placed into administration, company confirms

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... said Charles Macek, chairman of the board at SIRIS. "The journey has taken a lot longer than we or our investment baking adviser would have thought possible given the size of the business and the strategic value to a whole range of organisations that ...

GNDI: encourage board diversity, but not by quotas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... the boards to encourage diversity throughout management because that develops the pipeline," said Louise Pocock, policy adviser at AICD. "It's a way of getting people from more diverse backgrounds throughout the organisation." AICD has been engaging ...

VicSuper integrates governance risk into bond portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... VicSuper The AU$9.8bn public sector superannuation fund has developed the new benchmark in consultation with their investment adviser, Towers Watson, and with BlackRock Investment Management and index provider Barclays Capital. "We are concerned about ...

CPA Australia issues SME sustainability assurance guide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... report on sustainability as a broader way of looking at business performance," said Amir Ghandar, CPA Australia policy adviser auditing and assurance. "There's a very well established assurance framework that has been primarily applied to financial reports ...

Minerals Council of Australia implementing water accounting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
The Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) has designed and is implementing a water accounting framework to provide a means for companies to analyse their water use and management in a way that is tailored to the minerals industry. Developed in conjunction ...

Woolworths poker machine vote fails, but push to continue

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
Shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a motion demanding retailer Woolworths Limited to put $1 maximum bet limits on the poker machines they operate, but engagement advisers and active institutional investors say they do not believe the issue is dead ...

Boards increasing engagement on remuneration reports

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
Boards of listed companies are continuing to increase the amount of time they spend engaging with investors, particularly around executive remuneration issues, said Amanda Wilson, Regnan managing director. Wilson said that in the lead-up to this year's ...

Trustees exposed to legal risk over climate change impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
Superannuation fund trustees are exposed to legal risks in the event of financial losses caused by the impacts of climate change, according to a report from the Asset Owners Disclosure Project (AODP). While superannuation and pension funds have an understanding ...

Sustainable investing needed as global economy transforms

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... clearly and their belief sets for the trustees. To me, I'm interested as a member of the community in sustainability and an adviser/consultant to pension funds, and to me sustainability sits right in there, front and centre."