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PRI launches new reporting framework for signatories

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... the 21st century and robust reporting on ESG integration, voting and stewardship activity is essential if the financial services industry is to win back the trust of its stakeholders," said Fiona Reynolds, managing director of the PRI. "This information ...

PRI: ESG factors material to sovereign bond creditworthiness

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... group concluded that while the big three credit rating companies - Moody's Investors Service, Standard & Poors Financial Services and Fitch Ratings do consider corruption in gauging political risk, those risks were underestimated. "The working group ...

Corporates should look beyond CSR to creating shared value

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... groups like super funds and so on, which are a fairly tight community. I was at a meeting with a whole lot of financial services group talking about social programs and financial services. Those sorts of meetings I didn't see happening a couple of years ...

BlackRock: ASX200 making "glacial" change in diversity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... director and head of corporate governance and responsible investment Asia-Pacific at BlackRock. "If you take financial services as an example, - 60% of graduates are female and that has been the case for at least 10 years. Yet if you look at the upper ...

Christian Super invests in microinsurance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... microinsurance, but their invested companies also offer pensions, savings and investment products as well. "We invest in financial services companies in Africa and Asia that provide financial tools to low-income and emerging consumers," said Andrew Kuper ...

ETS proposal put auctions, carbon hedging on tighter agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... risk for companies. In Australia, it's more limiting in who they can go to - they should have an Australian Financial Services license in order to be able to trade, which I think is a positive to the Australian scheme. If organisations are going to outsource ...

Ethinvest model portfolios outperform wider ASX indices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... don't pay great dividends, but they have had strong growth, and have had strong price performance as well." Financial services and real estate companies feature in the top 10 holdings of both model portfolios - Westpac, Telstra, CSL, AMP, Suncorp, Brambles ...

CFSGAM to create global responsible investment committee

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... trust and confidence is critical to their long-term success as a responsible asset manager, noting that the financial services sector overall has a poor level of trust according Edelman Trust Barometer. The asset manager also noted that the UK Financial ...

Clean Energy Finance Corporation gets investment mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... like the CEFC can attract and support private sector interest in low carbon investment and address gaps in financial services markets," said Nathan Fabian, chief executive of the Investor Group on Climate Change. "We think co-financing will quickly become ...

Industry to coordinate efforts to develop impact investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... action to grow what is currently a nascent market, a conclusion that has led interested organisations in the financial services sector to set up a financial services forum to address this. Earlier this month, the Department of Education, Employment and ...