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Westpac, CBA raise $10 million for Benevolent Society SBB

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... being safely returned to their families. The bond will fund the maintenance of existing centres, and the planned expansion of six more centres in New South Wales. NGS Super became the first superannuation fund to invest in a social benefit bond with ...

PRI launches new reporting framework for signatories

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... investment manager signatories. Signatories will be required to publicly report each year on their implementation of the PRI's six principles across a wider range of asset classes and investment activities, including voting and engagement; manager selection ...

ACSI: ASX100 boards more diverse in gender, background

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... non-executive directorship roles in 2012, 23 are former executives, 14 are current executives, seven are law/accounting partners, six are substantial shareholder reps, three are former politicians and two are former public servants. Furthermore, the ...

NGS Super to launch stand-along SRI fund option

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... has not been a popular choice with fund members, said Anthony Rodwell-Ball, NGS Super chief executive. "We started looking six months ago with research to see what members are really looking for, given that SRI/ESG really does resonate with our members ...

ACSI: Investors have confidence in ASX100 boards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... managing AU$265 billion of Australian equities. Participants were asked 17 individual questions about their perceptions across six key areas of board responsibility - leadership, oversight, influence and responsiveness, strategic decision making, composition ...

Government drafts legislation to bring forward ETS timeline

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... to carbon, you could get access today, through trading the power contract." COzero's MarketLink platform offers trading in six carbon-related commodities - four types of renewable energy certificates, EUAs and Certified Emission Units (CERs). COzero ...

New Forests, CEFC agreement on bioenergy, biofuel finance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... Bioenergy presently provides 0.9% of Australia's energy generation, but according to the CEFC, this potentially could increase six-fold by 2020 with the right support in place. Under the collaboration agreement, New Forests can bring forward any projects ...

ETS proposal put auctions, carbon hedging on tighter agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... ready. This includes a carbon strategy, policies and development of a trading platform within the business. This can take up to six to nine months for companies to put in place and in some cases longer." Liable entities need to develop a trading framework ...

LGS joins Investor Statement on Bangladesh

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... (ILO). Bill Hartnett The statement comes as a response to the series of accidents in Bangladeshi garment factories in the past six months, resuling in the deaths of more than 1,500 garment workers. These incidents include the November 2012 fire in a ...

Report: majority of businesses prefer floating carbon price

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... have an emissions trading scheme. China started their first pilot emissions trading scheme last month, and are rolling out six by the end of the year and have committed to a national scheme by 2015. California is going quite strong... Quebec also started ...