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UCA Funds Management release 2013 annual report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... religious investment bodies by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA). "The goal is to have the same licensing level as any other retail fund manager," Walsh said. "We've ...

Norton Rose Fulbright: trustees must consider climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... article he wrote for Norton Rose Fulbright. "You can tie yourself up in knots in trying to understand superannuation regulation," El Hassan told The Sustainability Report. "It's prescriptive, it's multifaceted and multilayered. If we step back from the ...

PRI moving ahead with governance review, disclosure regime

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... obligations on PRI signatories and new regulations on Australian superannuation funds from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority that will increase disclosures to fund members. "The portfolio level disclosure is an important step," she said. ...

GRESB launches 2014 survey

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014  |  NEWS
The Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) has launched is 2014 survey, its fifth year of operation. In 2013, 550 property companies and funds, managing US$1.6 trillion in value, participated in the GRESB survey. The Global Real Estate ...

NAB outlines goals in 2014 Reconciliation Action Plan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... committing to closing the gap or reconciliation, if you're going to have the upside, you have to be accountable. Self-regulation isn't far enough for Indigenous Australians."

Global Alliance for Banking on Values to meet in Melbourne

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... member banks' CEOs and some board members will also meet with government, representatives from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, and Australian financial services industry bodies ...

RIAA launches RI Academy in Canada, India

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... materiality of ESG factors. RI Academy cites regulatory examples across the world in terms of trends in policy and regulation, but at this time, it hasn't been adapted and hasn't needed to be adapted." RIAA is considering whether to develop add-on modules ...

South Australia introduces building upgrade finance bill

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
The government of South Australia has proposed legislation that will bring environmental upgrade finance to the state and provide a new financing vehicle for commercial developers to retrofit buildings to improve water, waste and energy efficiency. ...

Supply chain, G4, social value to top sustainability agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
When it comes to sustainability issues in 2014, corporate Australia is likely to focus on the transition to the Global Reporting Initiative's G4 guidelines, defining and reducing environmental and social risks in the supply chain and defining the social ...

Interest spurs new developments in social enterprise funding

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... new mechanism, you have to look at it and see how it plays out in the regulatory environment.... When it comes to the regulation of credit, the licensing of debt finance, it's pretty tight and you can argue that maybe one of the reasons why Australia ...