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PRI to target water risk in agricultural supply chains

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... Reynolds, PRI managing director. "We welcome proactive dialogue between investors and businesses to stimulate improved transparency and risk management practices, and in turn promote resilience in food production in an increasingly water scarce world." ...

CDP: World cities report climate change business impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... the business was facing." Cities and businesses must collaborate and coordinate, according to the report. Greater transparency is also an important part of the process, Bulla said. "Greater transparency of climate change risks and their expected impacts ...

Carbon Trade Exchange launches REC trading platform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... or wind-back. The CTX REC market is an exchange platform for buyers, sellers and brokers, increasing liquidity and transparency in the market, and avoiding the over-the-counter processes that involve additional costs and greater risk, CTX said. "Providing ...

Barclays, MSCI to launch Green Bond Index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... will be an extremely useful tool for issuers and institutional investors and an important step in the evolution, transparency, and standardization of the Green Bond market," Glascott said. Separately, MSCI have also announced that MSCI ESG Research will ...

ACSI: companies paid premium for rights issue underwriting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... underwriting fees for share placements in the same way as currently applies to rights issues," ACSI said. "This improved transparency will allow analysis (such as this study) to be applied to placements, not just rights issues. Second, ASX should continue ...

Push to focus on tax reform, transparency as part of G20

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
Tax and transparency reforms should be a priority for Australia in its presidency of the G20 because there is a strong link between base erosion and profit sharing (BEPS) and the G20's objective to promote development, according to Oxfam Australia and ...

ASIC guide widens scope of risk, future prospect disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... of how directors should disclose risks and future prospects of a listed company, opening further opportunities for transparency around environmental and social issues and their material impacts. Dr Ulysses Chioatto, executive director and head of research ...

LGS Taps AMP Capital for social infrastructure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... sustainability, Local Government Super In addition to the fund's investment characteristics, Hartnett also cited CommIF's transparency and the strength of its assets as part of the reason why LGS made the allocation. This is the first time that LGS has ...

Sedex Global partners with World Bank Institute on platform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... partner with the World Bank Institute to develop the Open Supply Chain Platform, an initiative aimed at companies' transparency and performance in responsible supply chain data. The Open Supply Chain Platform will provide a free, global online platform ...

NAB, GS Microfinance: more needed on financial exclusion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... aged 18 to 24 and more than 40% are employed. Gavin Slater, NAB group executive, personal banking, said that greater transparency of the fringe lending sector is required in order to fully understand why people, particularly employed Australians, aren't ...