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Resource constraints could render pension funds insolvent

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... Strategic Asset Allocation. If the international community's mitigation response to carbon emission is strong, the industries that would be worse off include fossil-fuel industries such as coal mining, crude oil and gas extraction, petroleum refining ...

Greencape Capital hires Jonathan Koh

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... Established in 2006, the fund manager uses "uses targeted research methods to identify sustainable returns in businesses and industries with attractive and measurable operating trends," the fund said. Koh comes to Greencape Capital from BlackRock, where ...

A view on Woolworths' corporate responsibility report

JOSH DOWSE  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... communities. It's one of those areas where a large corporate is asked to be all things to all people. Woolworths touches industries and communities more than most, so its stakeholders have high expectations. Just the strategic priorities for the supermarkets ...

Unconventional gas development poses risks to investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... economy," she said. "This means that if there are risks to unconventional gas that do negatively impact upon other industries, we are exposed to those impacts as well. In the same way, if coal seam gas and shale fail to deliver on their contractual obligations ...

Companies with carbon targets see higher reductions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... Disclosure Project (CDP) Carbon Action 2012 request. CDP Carbon Action is a letter sent to 256 companies in high-emitting industries, requesting emissions reductions with publicly disclosed targets and ROI-positive investments in projects, and a letter ...

Low Carbon Australia finances Richgro waste-to-energy plant

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... for biogas projects in Australia with our own research indicating that the intensive agriculture and meat processing industries could offer significant opportunities for cost effective carbon abatement." The waste-to-energy plant will cost more than ...

ANZ creates hydroelectric power policy for lending

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... its 2012 review and has added it as part of their "sensitive sector" policies, which also include energy, extractive industries, forests and forestry and water. "Our hydroelectric power policy guides decision-making relating to transactions that impact ...

Responsible investment in The Asian Century

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... technologies is one way for institutional investors to hedge against the risks of climate change and carbon intensive industries, said Hugh Dougherty, head of manager research for Towers Watson in Australia and a member of the Global Sustainable Investments ...

ACCSR: Governance and transparency material issues

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... sustainability reports put out by eight companies between 2010 and 2012 in the mining, energy and financial services industries. Although the review focused on the mining, energy and financial services industries, there are lessons for organisations ...

Using natural capital to add to risk, opportunity analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... by our ability to trade on our natural capital. Whether that is in the form of our extractive, or our agricultural industries, or our tourism, or even our extensive migration which we can part enjoy because of our governance arrangements and other sorts ...