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Combet announces phase-out of solar credit mechanism

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
The federal government will phase out the solar credit mechanism in January 2013, six months ahead of schedule, a move that is expected to lower the cost of electricity and curtail a potential oversupply in renewable energy certificates. Minister for ...

Capturing the upside potential of Australia's carbon market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... by project developers and permit sellers as well as corporates, liable parties and traders, Armstrong said. MarketLink took six months to develop and was formally launched at CarbonExpo. It captures the conviction that the company has about the future ...

CDP: increased water risk awareness, lagging board response

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... corporate accountability through more transparency, concrete targets and goals and board level oversight of water-related issues." Six Australian companies were invited to participate in the survey, and five of those six companies responded to the survey. ...

AXA IM brings ESG equities analytic framework to Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... study based on AXA IM's UK equity team, which manages more than over GBP 10 billion of UK equity assets. AXA IM focused on six ESG criteria - management performance, remuneration, control, employees, environment and board - and evaluated about 250 companies ...

Study: GRI can boost public sector reporting efficiency

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... efficiency in Australia's public sector, according to research commissioned by GRI's Focal Point Australia. An analysis of six different pieces of public reporting legislation in New South Wales (NSW) agains the 126 indicators in GRI's 3.1 guidelines ...

New Forests issues second sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... privately held company, stated assets under management of AU$1.25bn and almost 400,000 hectares of land and forestry assets across six Australian states. New Forests has three investment strategies - Australia New Zealand Forest Fund, which has invested ...

More women, more new entrants appointed to ASX100 boards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... independent. Of the ASX100, 12 of the 87 sample were not majority independent at the time of the survey sample date. Of those 12, six met their company's definition of majority independent. The six companies in the sample that were not majority independent ...

Sustainable investing needed as global economy transforms

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... long-horizon performance fee arrangements, which is a relative rarity in the market in Australia. "I gave a speech on sustainability six months ago and I touched on this point - the whole performance fee issue is about trust," Dougherty said. "If you ...

ANZ a leader in financial inclusion, with scope to expand

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... have been approved to 1,259 customers with an average default rate of 2%. But changes to the banking environment in the past six years mean that there is wider availability of finance to people with low incomes, including Centrelink advance and other ...

CFSGAM hires Pablo Berrutti as responsible investment head

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... significant progress in recent years, and are currently placed in the top quartile among global investment managers in five of the six United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment. "We are determined to build on this success; these appointments ...