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Graham Dooley new president of Australian Water Association

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... two-year term as AWA president. Dooley holds a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) from the University of Sydney and a Masters of Public Administration from The American University in Washington DC. He is a fellow of the Institute ...

Superannuation funds urged to examine impact of investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... integrating ESG and PODPOI into traditional investment processes, Richard Brandweiner, president of the CFA Society of Sydney who has just started as director investment services for First State Super, urged superannuation funds to look to the category ...

CFSGAM to create global responsible investment committee

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... individual team reports from around its offices. For example, the global listed infrastructure securities fund, based out of Sydney, highlighted engagement with SP Austnet over its management structure. "SP Ausnet, an Australian regulated utility, has ...

Publish What You Pay reexamining extractive companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... and payment disclosure, and will be launched at the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) conference in Sydney in May, said Claire Spoors, PWYP Australia coordinator. "This time, we're going to look at ASX200 extractive companies to see ...

City of Sydney signs first environmental upgrade agreement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
Eureka Funds Management and Frasers Property have signed the City of Sydney's first environmental upgrade agreement (EUA) - a $26.5 million financing deal that will fund the construction of a gas-powered trigeneration plant to provide energy to an upcoming ...

The hidden movement: how responsible brands strike back

STEPHEN HALE  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... welcomes this comment from Stephen Hale, a director at Core and former founding MD of OgilvyEarth. Core is an independent Sydney-based marketing and strategy agency Stephen Hale The other day a well known marketing director asked me, "Has the green product ...

Businesses addressing climate change as strategic risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... manage risk and take advantage of opportunities, topics that will be addressed this week at a symposium at the University of Sydney Business School. "There are ways to move beyond the political rancour and social debate and see how markets are shifting ...

University of Sydney opens Centre for Carbon, Water and Food

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
The University of Sydney is launching the Centre for Carbon, Water and Food, a multidisciplinary research centre that will investigate food security and environmental challenges through an integrated approach. The Centre for Carbon, Water and Food has ...

Net Balance: financial, shared value performance related

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... Foundation, in association with CAER - Corporate Analysis, Enhanced Responsibility - and a professor from the University of Sydney Business School - reviewed five years of sustainability performance data on 287 ASX listed companies. "A CSV score for ...

MSCI: using ESG ratings can improve portfolio returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... as you can treat any other investment analysis factor," said Michael Salvatico, Vice President at MSCI ESG Research in Sydney. "This is bringing the ESG ratings to the investor in a way that they're more familiar.... I've always thought that ESG ratings ...