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Fiona Reynolds to take PRI managing director role

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
Fiona Reynolds has resigned as CEO of the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) to take a job as managing director of the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). Fiona Reynolds The newly created position will see Reynolds work ...

Combet announces phase-out of solar credit mechanism

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... certificates, but power companies are able to pass on the higher regulated value in the form of higher energy costs to the consumer." See Also: Calls for expedited reduction of SRES multiplier

Q&A with Meg McDonald, CEO Low Carbon Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... limits to co-financing models? MMc: The thing that we have found is that you have to have an understanding of the end-use consumer or project-owner themselves. The volatility of the whole energy scene has made a lot of end use consumers, large and small ...

FTSE adds three Australian companies to FTSE4Good indexes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... of companies for which supply chain labour standards apply came because FTSE determined that a an increasing number of consumer product manufacturers were exposed to these risks. Initially, FTSE said, the supply chain labour standards only applied to ...

Investors alert to possible Metcash poker machine move

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... is a wholesale distribution and marketing company specializing in grocery, fresh produce, liquor, hardware and other consumer goods. It has four divisions - Metcash Food and Grocery, Australian Liquor Marketers, Campbells Wholesale and Mitre 10, a chain ...

Majority of ASX200 lack formal labour, human rights policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... temporary staff. Labour controversies were more prevalent than human rights controversies in ASX200 companies. The materials, consumer staples, industrials and consumer discretionary sectors notably have the highest frequency of labour rights controversies. ...

Carbon price to bring reporting and compliance complexities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... going to be assessed and attributed in a company's books. The reason for that is that the [ Australian Competition and Consumer Commission ] ACCC has a hell of a lot of additional funding to look at price gouging. They have come out and said we are going ...

Calls for expedited reduction of SRES multiplier

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
A debate has emerged over whether the federal government should wind back the Small Scale Renewable Energy Scheme (SRES) multiplier more quickly than the default timetable, with supporters saying that a potential oversupply in the number of SRES for ...

NAB partners to launch Victorian microfinance retail hubs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... shows that were banks able to offer, or interested in offering, financial products and services, there is massively unmet consumer demand in that 15% of the adult population." Although this is the first retail hub offering of its type anywhere in the ...

CSA warns on timing of undirected proxy vote legislation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... government has proposed adding the "short and uncontentious" amendment to another," more controversial and unrelated" Consumer Credit Amendment Bill that will be reintroduced to Parliament in the week of 21 May. "By relegating the reintroduction of the ...