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ACCSR: Governance and transparency material issues

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... assessments for 11 sustainability reports put out by eight companies between 2010 and 2012 in the mining, energy and financial services industries. Although the review focused on the mining, energy and financial services industries, there are lessons ...

Cruelty Free Super celebrates second birthday

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... recycling, water and waste management, education and healthcare. "The portfolio is weighted towards stocks in the financial services, telecoms, and more generalist large caps stocks," Coates said. "We are not invested in the largest mining companies ...

Sustainable investing needed as global economy transforms

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... I touched on this point - the whole performance fee issue is about trust," Dougherty said. "If you look at financial services - trust is at its lowest ebb and we need to seek to rebuild the trust between suppliers and the end beneficiary because it's ...

ASIC affirms October deadline for carbon trading AFS licence

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
Institutions that intend to provide financial services in carbon units under the federal pricing regime have until the end of October to apply to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) for an Australian financial services (AFS) ...

Industry leaders establish Banking and Finance Oath

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... and Finance Oath (BFO), an organisation that seeks to restore trust and encourage ethical behaviour in the financial services industry. Stephen Dunne, AMP Capital The BFO is an initiative of the Banking and Finance Ethics Panel, a working group led industry ...

Foresters launches Social Investment Australia lending fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... a loan," Wheeler said. "The fund will then supply the capital for that specific loan." SIA is an Australian Financial Services license holder and is the fund management arm of Foresters Community Finance. The Community Finance Fund Non-Profit is designed ...

Transparency International publishes anti-corruption report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... 10 in each of the three dimensions of transparency. Meanwhile, a separate section of the report examined the financial services sector on its own, based on full transparency on anti-corruption programs, with 0% meaning no transparency and 100% on full ...

AMP Capital fund buys stake in Indian clean energy company

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... investment. Existing investors in SGEL include International Finance Corporation and Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services Group. The US$161m AGIF targets growth oriented infrastructure investments in India and China in sectors such as transportation ...

Clean Energy Regulator and ASIC to work together

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... market information. They will collaborate to "support market intelligence" and will exchange information on financial services, financial transactions and registry transactions on carbon units, Australian carbon credit units (ACCUs) and eligible international ...

Australian Ethical Investments faces EGM board spill

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... shareholders, the board noted that Asutralian Ethical's performance has remained solid "relative to peers in the financial services industry" through a challenging time. "Our funds under management and hence revenues have remained relatively stable," ...